Yao Ming Quotes

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Yao Ming

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: September 12, 1980

Topics

LearningCultureMeBasketballLearn

I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.

Jesse Johnson

WorkGoodJobSchoolBrotherWorld

I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.

Jeffrey Wright

LiveMyselfManPurposeBlack

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

Robert Green Ingersoll

LieUniverseWillNeverAnything

My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.

Ron White

ShowsFilthy

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

Michael Rosenbaum

New YorkMechanicPlaceNewGrocery

My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

Chris Pine

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From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.

Conrad Black

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I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'

Brian Greene

GodThinkInterestingFindTest

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Ariel Rechtshaid

TryingYouAlwaysImpressionGet

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

Armistead Maupin

TruthSpeakYouAlwaysPretending

This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.

Ato Boldon

BestLosingGoAwaySeasonHappened

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Atul Gawande

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