Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.
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Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
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On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'
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Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture.
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The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
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Won’t you help the government in saving Gujarat? Won’t you help us in maintaining peace and harmony? The Government of Gujarat appeals to you for help, appeals to you for shanti (peace) and sanyam (restraint or self-discipline).
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The stage is home, and there's no place like it.
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We might be more inclined to think about the longer term if we were more aware of what is happening around us. Perhaps daily weather forecasts could include a few basic facts about the Earth's vital signs or details of where climate change is increasing the likelihood of damaging weather?
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In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.
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We all have jobs in our lives that we must get done. We reach out and bring products into our lives to get these jobs done. Marketing is all about asking, 'What job is the customer trying to accomplish?'
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It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
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Personally, I've always liked movies about big diamonds, like 'Pink Panther' and 'The Thomas Crown Affair.' I've always found those films really interesting, and they have a good energy about them, which I like.
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Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
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Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.
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I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.
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Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
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Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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All I had to do was do it.
