Yanni Quotes
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It's those damn critics again.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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Never explain, never complain.
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People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.
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That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.
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I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.