Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes
I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.
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At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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The people know the salt of the sea and the strength of the winds lashing the corners of the earth. The people take the earth as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope. Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Higher asset prices increase wealth and, with a lag, induce higher spending.
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Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
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The only people who attain power are those who crave it.
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I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.
