Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

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• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

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• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

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• I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.

  

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• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  

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• Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.

  

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• My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

  

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• Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

  

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• Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

  

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• The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

  

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• The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.

  

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• Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.

  

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• I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

  

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• One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

  

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• Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

  

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• I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

  

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  • Desire
  • Entrepreneur
  • Originals