Yannis Philippakis Quotes
When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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To lead people walk behind them.
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I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.
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Out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.
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Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
