Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
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Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.
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Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.