#any

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#central #chinese #completely #different #fluently

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

#cello #contemporaries #great #grew #him

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#eye #i #i think #looked #many

What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this. ↗

— Lesley Visser

#comes #competition #down #going #i

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#any #because #concerned #forces #great

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#enter #fatal #war #will #win

Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well. ↗

— James MacArthur

#because #believe #come #frankly #good

I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did. ↗

— James MacArthur

#believed #connected #did #five-o #i

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#been #everybody #great #great passions #happens

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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