Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes
Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
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I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
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When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.
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Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.
