Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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Because all night you have not turned to us or spoken It is time for you to wake;
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And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.