Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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I love women more than anything.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.
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I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.
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Pour me another tequila, I'm going to put on your red satin dress. You put on my clothes.
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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
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The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.
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The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.
