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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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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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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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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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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When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.
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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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I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
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The first day I got drafted, I felt the fans were really passionate about basketball, and there was going to be a lot of pressure.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
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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.
