Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
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If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.
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I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
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I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.
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I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.
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Why not simply allow them unlimited vacation? Anecdotal reports thus far are mixed—but from a game-theoretic perspective, this approach is a nightmare. All employees want, in theory, to take as much vacation as possible. But they also all want to take just slightly less vacation than each other, to be perceived as more loyal, more committed, and more dedicated (hence more promotion-worthy). Everyone looks to the others for a baseline, and will take just slightly less than that. The Nash equilibrium of this game is zero. As the CEO of software company Travis CI, Mathias Meyer, writes, “People will hesitate to take a vacation as they don’t want to seem like that person who’s taking the most vacation days. It’s a race to the bottom.
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To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.
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If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.
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I've always lived in the moment.
