Yanis Varoufakis Quotes
If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.
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If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
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Faced with problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility: escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. But today, I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.
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Time does not die; only people.
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The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.
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If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
