Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes
You can divide airlines into two camps: expensive and cheap. But I believe that we will only distinguish between long-haul and short-haul airlines in the future.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.
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I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.
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Nothing is easy, and as far as my modelling career goes, the path to the top has been long and difficult, but that's what makes it special. I always look back to remind myself where I've come from.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.
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Being a conservative has given me clarity; it's given me freedom - my mind is free; therefore, my heart is lighter. And that's a gift from God that I believe we have an obligation to share with others.
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I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
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I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.
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I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.
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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
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It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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You can divide airlines into two camps: expensive and cheap. But I believe that we will only distinguish between long-haul and short-haul airlines in the future.
