Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

Yo-Yo Ma

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LiveMusicPurposeThinkDownWell

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

Jessica Pare

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I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very specific, real theater sort of like, you know, in England and the Berliner Ensemble - very devoted people. And I thought the theater was the greatest place I had ever been, and that's what I wanted to do.

Joel Grey

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The thing about Steve Rogers, again and again, is sacrifice.

Stephen McFeely

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Simone Weil

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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Simone Weil

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Consumers deserve the opportunity to watch their program of choice.

Tony Cardenas

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Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.

Mary Beth Whitehead

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If you care enough, you make a difference.

Loretta Swit

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Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

Joyce Banda

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China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

Jose Rizal

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When you do casting in Hollywood, it's always the same question: 'Who is available?'

Denis Villeneuve

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I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.

Colin Trevorrow

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