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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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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 do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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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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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
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When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.
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Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.
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The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
