Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

Yo-Yo Ma

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It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.

Jidenna

PurposeBetterSomeoneYourThan

But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

John Abizaid

PeopleCityYouSaidPlacesBeen

Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.

John Hurt

ChildrenI AmWorldThoughtEarly

I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights.

Steve Wynn

AnimalWillRightsShowChanged

It's important to get a good start at a top club like Real. When things are going badly, you can overcome it quickly at a top club.

Toni Kroos

GoodStartYouImportantTopReal

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

Robin Morgan

WomenPeacefulWomen ArePassive

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.

Michael Symon

HomeTimeProductsGetAbleLongest

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

Divyanka Tripathi

WomenPathWomanPeopleChooseOwn

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.

Deborah Sampson

OpportunityControlWorldEnthusiasm

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

Christine Lagarde

LifeLoveBusinessMyselfDeathEgo

The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers?

Peter Morgan

WorkLoveMeCollaborationWriting

A perfectionist? That's part of my job.

Pep Guardiola

JobPerfectionistPart

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