Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes

I didn't want people to say: Stelios does everything on the cheap at work, and in private he lives in the lap of luxury. That's not me. I don't need those status symbols. I don't need a private jet either when I can go everywhere with Easy.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

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• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Life
  • Family
  • Protect

• In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Important
  • Business
  • Know

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Stop

• Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • America
  • Think
  • Myself

• I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Professional

• I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Loving

• I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Always
  • Student
  • Ordinary

• As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Me
  • Impression
  • Ornaments

• I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Think
  • Science
  • Interesting

• It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • People
  • Know
  • Cool

• I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Up
  • Children
  • House

• My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Father
  • Health

• My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Belief
  • Race
  • Servant

• Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Die

• Personally, I just tease people a lot.

  

  Alex Meraz
  • People

• In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

  

  James Brown
  • People
  • Live
  • Nature

• When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • People
  • Writing
  • Special

• I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Mouths
  • Deny
  • Whispering

• 'Gilmore Girls' was a passion of mine, to the point where Lennon actually can't watch it because if she does, then we might be fully ripping them off.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Passion
  • Gilmore Girls

• I didn't want people to say: Stelios does everything on the cheap at work, and in private he lives in the lap of luxury. That's not me. I don't need those status symbols. I don't need a private jet either when I can go everywhere with Easy.

  

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  • People
  • Needs
  • Easy