Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?
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Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
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I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.
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I had left the music industry at the end of 2001, after 10 years, and had spent three years writing every single day - producing two unpublished novels, one abandoned novel, and three unproduced screenplays. The word 'no' and I were on more than nodding terms. The word 'no' and I were talking about going on holiday together.
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
