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.

George Papandreou

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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 don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

  

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• I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.

  

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• Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

  

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• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

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• I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

  

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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.

  

  George Papandreou
  • People
  • Effort
  • Greek