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A good leader must be fair.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Leader
Must
Good
Fairs
Fair
Basketball

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First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass.
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Moving to the US was quite a transition for me, to say the least! There were, and still are so many new things to get used to: the language, food, culture, even the style of basketball is different here!
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When the buying stops, the killing can too.
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Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.
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Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.
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I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.
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Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
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