Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.
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I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
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You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
