Melina Mercouri Quotes
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
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The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
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I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
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A dangerous person to disagree with.
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I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.
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This is the word tightrope. Now imaginea man, inching across it in the spacebetween our thoughts. He holds our breath.There is no word net.You want him to fall, don't you?I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.The word applause is written all over him.
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I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.
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I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.
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Beans are a real go-to for me.
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The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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We are very much interested in developing and strengthening our relations with India because India is one of the most important countries in the world. We believe in democracy... I hope my visit will contribute to strengthening our relations with India.
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The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.
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Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.
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We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
