Melina Mercouri Quotes
In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'
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When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.
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When I think back on it, I have a sense of relaxation, as if in the seventies no one had to try to be anyone other than who they were. I'm sure that's not really true, but that's how I remember it, and I suppose it might be relatively true.
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In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.
