Nana Mouskouri Quotes
Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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Bush has compiled a fiscal record of startling recklessness.
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I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
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I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
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We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
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Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
