Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
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My inbox showed me how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.
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Always lobbying for his own emotions, he was the perfect man for a job the administration had tacitly committed to ineptitude.
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My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate of emotion are flowing freely-all systems are united and made whole. When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and our behavior.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
