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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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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Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.
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I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
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The movie I'm really excited about that I had really fun doing is 'Feed the Dog.' It's with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. It's really fun. It's raunchy, like 'Superbad' meets 'Risky Business,' kind of. I got to be a really fun character, an out-there Mrs. Robinson-type character. I get to seduce Nat.
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People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business
