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

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
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• 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
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  • Way
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• Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

  

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

  

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

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Business
  • Bad
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• The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

  

  Plato
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• Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Eyes

• I've gone to normal clubs, straight clubs, and I've gone to gay clubs to party with my friends and fans. There's no difference. I have nothing to prove. I'm very comfortable in my own skin, and I'm thankful to have as many close gay friends as I have, people who have been so supportive in my life and have always been there for me.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
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• Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Beauty
  • Places
  • Disgusting

• Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Man
  • Food
  • Meat

• 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