Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.
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I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.
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The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.
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So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.
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Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
