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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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.
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Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects - illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.
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I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.
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The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.
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I've always lived in the moment.
