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If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.
Yao Ming
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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
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Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
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Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?
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My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.
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I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal ... other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life.
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Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.
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Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.
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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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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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