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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I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces.
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Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
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As he ages and sees more of the world, he’s realizing that bad news is a part of life, and that when you have to give it, just say it and get it over with.
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Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.
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The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
