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A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.


Ninon de L'Enclos


#choice #given #loving #man #them

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.


Yo-Yo Ma


#another way #communicate #concept #content #else

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

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.


Yo-Yo Ma


#cello #effort #even #finding #framing

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.


Barney Ross


#blue #buoy #deck #destroyer #i

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.


Douglas MacArthur


#be strong #brave #build #defeat #enough

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.


Douglas MacArthur


#better #better world #emerge #faith #shall

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.


Norm MacDonald


#funny #intending #laugh #make #somebody

I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.


Norm MacDonald


#almost #argue #end #ending #fantasy

I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues.


Dennis Ross


#administration #advice #any #ask #been






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