"I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today."

-- George Papandreou

#Country Quotes #Father Quotes #Military Quotes

“The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.”
“Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.”
“When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.”
“I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.”
“We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.”
“Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.”
“He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side.”
“Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.”

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