Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.
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Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
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Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
