Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes
America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
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I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
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What better way to expand your imagination than to read!
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Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game.
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The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.
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One of my failings as a new reporter is that I don't know when to stop. It's a very fine line, and I think that's a really important skill to have - to know when to stop asking questions. I’m still trying to figure that out.
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Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
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America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.
