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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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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The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.
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No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.
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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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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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When the buying stops, the killing can too.
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Kobe's heart is as strong as his muscles.
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To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession. I feel that I am very fortunate that I can find a professional job that I really, really love.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.
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