Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes

As a self-employed person, the idea of a break is completely foreign to me. If I completely switch off for any period of time, I know I'm going to pay for it several times over. For me, it's a lot better and easier to stay in touch and know what's going on seven days a week than to switch off.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

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TimeMeBetterWeekPersonKnow

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

Joe Wright

LiveArtistCreateSufferMeans

My crazy fear is I'm always afraid my keys are going to fall down a subway grate when I walk over it. I'm afraid they're going to jump out of my pocket and fall down. Isn't that stupid?

John Carroll Lynch

FearWalkCrazyStupidFallDown

I don't really live by plans.

Andrea Corr

LivePlansReally

We met in April of 2000, and we weren't really an official couple until June or July. His family has a fishing trip they go on every year in Minnesota, so he had invited me to go and meet his whole family. There was, like, no cell phone service at the time; people were using those giant cordless phones that looked like a brick.

Megan Mullally

FamilyTimeServiceFishingPeople

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

GreatWomanPaintingMadHerGet

All I care about is the story and telling the story. I don't care how people ingest it.

Steven Soderbergh

PeopleStoryCareTellingHowAbout

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

Sting

MeHelpAlwaysThingsBecauseFit

I can't feel sorry for myself.

Lizzie Armitstead

MyselfSorryFeel

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

Jay-Z

LifeGoodMusicUglyPeopleMe

Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.

Jason Fried

MotivationMeetingsToo MuchSpice

Seeing 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I'd ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me.

Derek Cianfrance

ExperienceChildhoodChildMeSeeing

Ice and I just live our own lives. I have to answer to him, and he has to answer to me, and that's it. We don't care about the outside world, and even though it can be harsh out there, we just have to deal with it.

Coco Austin

LiveMeWorldCareIceOutside

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