Yanni Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.
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Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
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I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.
