Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
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My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.
