Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes
People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.
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I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.
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Great music is great music, period.
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I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.
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I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'
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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
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I don't believe there are any more blockbusters films. Back in the day with music, people would wait up all night for the music store to open to get their favorite CD, and if it were sold out they would come back again.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business
