Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes

I was tough on myself because I feared being a lazy procrastinator and the inevitable result: being mediocre or second best. I always went the extra mile.

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• A well-aimed spear is worth three.

  

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• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

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• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

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• We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

  

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• We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

  

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• I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.

  

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• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

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• I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.

  

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• I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

  

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• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  

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• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

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• It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

  

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• I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

  

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• The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

  

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• I like throwing snowballs at small children.

  

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• I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.

  

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• When I arrived in Milan, I found myself surrounded by many fantastic footballers.

  

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• Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?

  

  William Shakespeare
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• I'm not a Baptist in any formal way. I go to the Baptist church, where my wife plays the piano, on days of bad weather. On days of good weather, I ramble off into the woods somewhere. I am a person who takes the Gospel seriously, but I have had trouble conforming my thoughts to a denomination.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• I was tough on myself because I feared being a lazy procrastinator and the inevitable result: being mediocre or second best. I always went the extra mile.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Lazy