Antonia Eugenia Vardalos (Nia Vardalos) Quotes

We must make choices that are outside of the familial expectations of us, or we'll just be repeating the mistakes. Our parents came here to give us better choices.

Antonia Eugenia Vardalos

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• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
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• I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

  

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• We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

  

  Edie Brickell
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• I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

  

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• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

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• I'd love to make a thriller.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
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• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
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• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
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  • Explore

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

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• I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

  

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• Wild flowers grow where they will.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Grow
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  • WIld

• I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
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• For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

  

  Tea Obreht
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• I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

  

  Ed Pastor
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• If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

  

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  • Body
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• I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.

  

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• The scribbler's life is never done.

  

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• In 10th grade, I was kicking it with the seniors. I introduced myself, and they were like, 'Yeah, Demetrius is cool, but we're gonna call you Pac.' That was it! It could be worse!

  

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• An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

  

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• If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.

  

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  • Great
  • Music
  • Children

• We must make choices that are outside of the familial expectations of us, or we'll just be repeating the mistakes. Our parents came here to give us better choices.

  

  Antonia Eugenia Vardalos
  • Parents
  • Mistakes
  • Expectations