Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's 'facts' and believe that winning was impossible.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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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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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
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The Rolling Stones seemed very loose and wild, but when you read about them, you realize that everything they did is very deliberate.
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Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to do the hardest thing in business, which is to make a great culture. I believe Marc is the most innovative and ambitious e-commerce entrepreneur on the planet.
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I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
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Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.
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I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's 'facts' and believe that winning was impossible.
