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 was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
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You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that.
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We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.
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It's hard for me to speak of my own development. I'm the one behind the steering wheel, and it is easier to see where the vehicle is going when you are looking at it. For me, it feels like I have been doing the same thing all along.
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I've always lived in the moment.
