"People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'"

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Yo-Yo Ma

#Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings.”
“If we - particularly, if we peremptorily attack North Korea - that without deliberation, that North Korea will reflexively unleash all the rocketry and artillery - which they're pretty good at, by the way - on Seoul, and do as they vowed many times, to convert Seoul into a sea of fire. So, if we do something like this, this will have cataclysmic results.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.”
“To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.”
“In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.”
“I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.”

Source : Source: www.spin.com
“I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.”

Source : "Neo-African Literature: A History of Black Writing". Book by Janheinz Jahn, 1968.
“What is most important almost always involves the people around us.”

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