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.

  

  Kate Adie
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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
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  • Circumstances

• There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

  

  Idris Elba
  • You
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  • Networking

• I never feel there's anything I can't do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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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.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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• Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Lost
  • Human
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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.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
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• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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• I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
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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.

  

  Camille Claudel
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  • Job

• 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.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
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  • Equality

• 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.

  

  Verite
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• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
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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.

  

  Orrin Hatch
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  • Up
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• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

  Cab Calloway
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• In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

  

  Tom Stoppard
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• People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • True
  • Wise
  • Consistency

• You can do yoga all day, you can run or bike or swim, but a pull-up will still be hard. It's not that you have to be a juiced-up 'lunk' to do one; it's a matter of physics.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Up
  • Yoga
  • Bike

• 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.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Exciting