#very

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#be careful #because #blessed #careful #different

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

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#conflicts #degraded #distribution #global #going

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#because #country #culture #cut #cutting

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#day #every #every single day #get #off

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#hated #i #just #kind #made

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band. ↗

— Courtney Love

#band #bought #comedy #everybody #i

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me. ↗

— Courtney Love

#i #least #me #survivor #tells

I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV! ↗

— Courtney Love

#every #every time #george #george bush #i

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things. ↗

— Mia Love

#because #citizens #day #every #every day