Yanis Varoufakis Quotes

Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.

Yanis Varoufakis

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• If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Hate

• There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
  • Together
  • Movie

• I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mom

• I try to keep a low profile.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Try
  • Low
  • Profile

• I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Funny
  • Try
  • Pause

• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Beginning
  • Understand
  • Moss

• What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Model
  • Doing
  • Year

• When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • World
  • Man
  • Car

• Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Energy
  • Environment

• The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Need
  • Will

• My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Complete
  • Outfit

• Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?

  

  Jack Benny
  • Star
  • Christmas

• So what happens when the regime falls, as it must? We are in the first stage of change in our country, and the feeling among the revolutionaries is that the people of Yemen will find solutions for our problems once the regime has gone, because the regime itself is the cause of most of them. A new Yemen awaits us, with a better future for all.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Country
  • Future

• No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Great

• A light broke in upon my brain, -It was the carol of a bird;It ceased, and then it came again,The sweetest song ear ever heard.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Song
  • Light
  • Brain

• Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Music
  • Art
  • Business

• We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • World
  • Music

• There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing wrong with getting old, or not being able to get pregnant, or being handicapped, or being short or tall or gay, or injured, or divorced or married to an idiot, or with Christianity or Judaism or Islam, or indigenous beliefs, or pollution, crime, war, Bush, etc. When this understanding grows, we realize where we're at now is just as perfect as wherever we could possibly get to.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Perfect
  • Process

• So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Career
  • Die

• Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Faith
  • Conflict
  • Personal

• I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Figures
  • Mets
  • Public Figures

• Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis