George Papandreou Quotes
Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.
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I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
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Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
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If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.
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Some people can work on the road, and that's incredibly impressive... maybe I'm not working myself hard enough.
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Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.
