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.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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This is not a dictadura dictatorship/hard rule but a dictablanda soft rule.
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Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
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Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.
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To think is to practice brain chemistry.
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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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There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.
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'Scared is what you're feeling,' says Ma, 'but brave is what you're doing.'
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The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.
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We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
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All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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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.
