Antonia Eugenia Vardalos (Nia Vardalos) Quotes

My blood sugar went out of control. Diabetes runs in my family, so I went to see my doctor. He was like, 'Buck up,' and it was sort of the wake-up call that I needed to hear.

Antonia Eugenia Vardalos

• Hear
• Diabetes
• Wake-Up Call

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Problems

• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • School
  • Love
  • Kids

• I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Stand

• I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Work
  • Together
  • Soul

• Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • You
  • Somebody
  • Introduce

• Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • God
  • Language
  • Rude

• It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Film

• If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Energy
  • Universe

• I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Money
  • Food

• Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Support
  • Name
  • Solar

• I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.

  

  Kaskade
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Memories

• Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Up
  • Focus

• How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good

• I knew it was very big in Europe, I've been working over there for twelve years.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Years
  • Europe

• We can't live in a place of fear.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Place

• We are behind the curve in keeping up with the global telecommunications revolution.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Up
  • Revolution
  • Global

• See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

  

  Epictetus
  • Hear
  • Philosopher
  • Speaker

• Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

  

  William A. Drake
  • Believe
  • Men

• The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Job
  • Media
  • Rag

• The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.

  

  Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart
  • Knowledge
  • Progress
  • Expectations

• My blood sugar went out of control. Diabetes runs in my family, so I went to see my doctor. He was like, 'Buck up,' and it was sort of the wake-up call that I needed to hear.

  

  Antonia Eugenia Vardalos
  • Hear
  • Diabetes
  • Wake-Up Call