Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
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In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life.
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We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.
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The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.