Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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I'm always forming bands.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.
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Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
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Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'
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After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.
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My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
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When fixing problems, always do the least you can.
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Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!
