Yannis Philippakis Quotes
By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.
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Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
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Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.
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My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.
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By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.
