Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

Yo-Yo Ma

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I couldn't do a show; I have about as much talent to do television as, you know... it's not what I do. I wouldn't know where to begin.

Jimmy Iovine

TalentYouTelevisionKnowBegin

The JOBS Act is the 'topic of the moment.'

Jerry Moran

MomentActJobsTopic

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

Mayim Bialik

StyleParentingYouChooseMatter

Slash, Axl, Duff, Izzy and I are all brothers. Axl and his lawyers cannot take away what we had. As long as we are alive, we have it. We are brothers and what do brothers do? We fight. I may not like them all the time, but I will always love them.

Steven Adler

LoveTimeFightLongLawyersAlive

I haven't found a heel that's been too high for me yet.

RuPaul

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When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

Jason Molina

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I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.

DMX

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I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

Don Cheadle

WorkBlackNowMoviesRenaissance

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Brian Tracy

WorldYouNowNeedRightEverything

For me, growing up as an activist under an oppressive dictatorship in Uganda, the U.N. was a friend to those of us who fought our way to freedom, as it was for the millions who joined decolonization struggles in the African continent.

Winnie Byanyima

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I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

Pitbull

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All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Thomas Sowell

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