Vangelis (Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou) Quotes

We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

Vangelis Aphrodite's Child

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Pet

• Experience by itself is not science.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Itself

• I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Night
  • Same
  • Chicago

• At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Phase
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• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Think
  • You
  • Film

• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everyone
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Myself

• I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Game

• By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Light
  • Struggle
  • Angry

• I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

  

  E. L. James
  • Never
  • New
  • New York

• Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Political
  • Media

• When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive, it's us who is entrapping them. When we forget the refugee, it's actually us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and the needy, we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own.

  

  Joel Houston Hillsong United
  • Help
  • Pain
  • Choose

• The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Up
  • Space
  • Rest

• When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Void

• Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Mad

• We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

  

  Vangelis Aphrodite's Child
  • Age
  • Dark
  • Musical