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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I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.
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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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I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
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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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At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.
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We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.
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It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.
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You see a lot of women who take the negative things that come their way and let it slide off them, like they are coated with Teflon.
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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
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I've always lived in the moment.
