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“"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.”

“George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.”

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Author:George Michael

“The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of democracy and freedom.”

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Author:Alexis Tsipras

“Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.”

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Author:Alexis Tsipras

“Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.”

Economy Greek Unemployment Restoring Slowly But Surely

Author:Alexis Tsipras

“I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.”

People Thinking Knows World Debt Enormous Greek Greece

Author:Barack Obama

“I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the outside, but is also good and noble on the inside in terms of character and in terms of purpose. And I think that's a fine description of the friendship that exists between the Greek people and the American people.”

People Thinking Character Beautiful Purpose Term Fine Ancient Noble Greek Description Ancient Times

Author:Barack Obama

“The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.”

Ideas America Father Democracy Inspire Ancient Greek Revolutionary Founding Greece Ancient Greece Revolutionary Ideas

Author:Barack Obama

“I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.”

Found Community Walks Son Daughter Grateful Greek Greece American Life Many Friends Son And Daughter

Author:Barack Obama

“In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again.”

Needs Jobs Order Growth Space Economy Return Creating Reform Greek Creating Jobs

Author:Barack Obama

“We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.”

People Looks Important Strategy Improvement Greek Get Better Daily Life Austerity

Author:Barack Obama

“We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.”

People World Want Children States Would Be Able United United States Unions Be Good Greek Good Life Greece European Union

Author:Barack Obama

“I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world.”

People World Want Compassion Europe Crisis Safety Response Extraordinary Seeking Humanitarian Greek Islands Admiration Refugee Migrants

Author:Barack Obama

“The Greek people have gone through some very difficult times and there's still a hard road ahead, but despite those hardships, Greece has continued to be a reliable ally, has shown true compassion to fellow human beings in need. It's an example of the Greek character.”

People Needs Humans Stills Hard Character Difficult Human Beings Compassion Gone Example Fellows Despite Greek Hardship Allies Greece Difficult Times

Author:Barack Obama

“I think the Greek people, although it is difficult and challenging and the politics of it I know are not good, should appreciate the fact that in this global economy, the Greek economy was going to have to go through some structural reforms.”

People Thinking Knows Should Facts Difficult Challenges Economy Appreciate Reform Greek Global Economy

Author:Barack Obama

“The Greek people are entrepreneurial.”

People Greek Entrepreneurial

Author:Barack Obama

“We know that for the last 300 or 400 years, the size of human bodies is growing. Now what happened is that we suddenly, in history, have the backward process. We have these great Greek athletes, we have ultra-powerful Roman soldiers. You look at the size of the Roman soldier who has to carry all this ammunition. You're talking about 300,000 Arnold Schwartzeneggers.”

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Author:Garry Kasparov

“The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should use Greek letters.”

Ifs Should Use Used Letters Complicated Greek Officials

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go way back, to the late 1920s for example, the times of the Great Depression. Or think of the United Kingdom in the 1970s, when the International Monetary Fund had to help the country out with a dramatic rescue operation. Up until the Greek crisis, that was the last time that the IMF was forced to intervene to such an extent in Europe.”

“You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.”

Ifs Firsts Greek Lunch

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.”

Thinking Knows Feels Mean I Can Done Play Influence Source Critics Greek Analysts Adapting Brecht Oedipus

Author:Wole Soyinka

“The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.”

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Author:Wole Soyinka

“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

Men World Years Political Politics This World Years Ago Gentle Greek

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually.”

Faces Names Christ Greek Krishna

Author:George Harrison

“There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.”

Christ Supposed To Be Greek Dictionary Borrowed Krishna Sanskrit

Author:A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But if you focus on euphoros, the Greek word for "the bearer of goodness," you will be inhabited by the divine source of life.”

Ifs Humans Happens Human Beings Focus Divine Source Goodness Strive Greek Elusive Source Of Life

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of the world. I can't imagine what people must think as they read my books in Poland. Or in Hebrew and Greek. People are reading all the stories which are about bits of Western Australia.”

People Thinking World Wells I Can Book Stories America Courses Reading Bits Imagine Sells Western Greek Australia Delightful Amusing Hebrew Poland

Author:Tim Winton

“If Christianity cannot present evidence that the soul is immortal, then they have nothing to offer the masses, eternity in heaven with God or hold over their heads suffering forever in hell. They need the immortality of the soul. I did my research, it's not in the Bible, so what do they do? They relied on Judaism, which has always believed in the immortality of the soul. I start checking on that and I look in the Judaica Encyclopedia and what do I find? Their remark that Judaism probably got the immortality of the soul from the Greeks, so I go back further, where it all started with Plato.”

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Author:Vincent Bugliosi

“All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.”

Men Firsts Wanted Form Speak Half Gone Hero Bones Myth East Greek Eastern Greece Achilles Plunder Greek Myth Theseus Perseus

Author:Oliver Stone

“I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.”

Names Daughter Greek Offspring Sneakers Nike

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came to the question of what it is that makes an individual human life worth living they didn't look to the immortals but rather approached the question in mortal terms. Their approaching the question of human mattering in human terms is the singularity that creates the conditions for philosophy in ancient Greece, most especially as these conditions were realized in the city-state of Athens.”

“For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.”

Way Might Social Technology Achieve Media Mass Ancient Details Social Media Bother Greek Apprehension Wondrous Ancient Greek Tweak Duplication

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.”

Should Children Play Together Natural Roots Greek Our Words Pedagogy Pediatrician

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots in Latin, "Archi - tecton" is actually a Greek word, and much older. Just knowing how old the profession is gives me hope that we will still exist for years to come, even if we are changing.”

Ifs World Giving Years Stills Knowing Concepts Roots Give Me Profession Lawyer Greek Latin Architect

Author:Santiago Calatrava

“These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the ancient Greeks, Romans and during the renaissance. They will help make you good professionals.”

Helping Today Three Quality Goodness Ancient Valuable Greek Tenacity Renaissance Ancient Greek

Author:Santiago Calatrava

“I just always loved mythology, ever since I was a kid. Greek mythology was something I remember learning about in fourth grade, and Egypt, too, and something about both those things just clicked with me. I just thought they both were so beautiful and interesting to learn about.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which was really savage - is that the Greek crisis didn't have to erupt. It could have been taken care of pretty easily at the very beginning. But it happened and Syriza came into office with a declared commitment to combat it, and in fact as I recall they actually called a referendum, which horrified Europe.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In all over the world. It took different forms, but it was there, everywhere. In Greece it was in the Greek revolution, and so on. And it had to be crushed. In countries like Greece, it was crushed by violence. In countries like Italy, where the US forces entered in 1943, it was crushed by attacking and destroying the anti-German partisans and restoring the traditional order.”

“If there is a Greek exit from the Eurozone, I think the German elite will be quite pleased that they can then use that to restructure the Eurozone and make it a zone where only strong countries are allowed in. There would then be two tiers within the European Union, which is in fact already happening. But you cannot simply get rid of German control by raising the specter of the Third Reich. That's ahistorical.”

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Author:Tariq Ali

“In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals of those philosophers, of those Greeks who thought about how a society could be fairer, how a society could really represent the interests of the people. We have tried to get closer to that from a Latin-American perspective and from the Cuban perspective.”

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Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.”

Men Said Sometimes Past Used Guy Walks Listening Musician Bird Towns Bars Checks Traditional France Greek Restaurants Hanging Out Standing Out Horns Buddy Just Listen Reacting

Author:Jon Gordon

“The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go wrong. You could get into a war. You could find that you have members of your family on the wrong side of a political crisis. You could be raped. You could find that your child has gone crazy because of some horrible experience she's had.”

“It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.”

Thinking Art Faces Culture Dark Cities Special Citizens Tradition Theater Fellows Greek Sunlight Broadway Recognizing Theatrical Civics Something Special Other Cultures

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“You have to pay so much to see theater, even in Chicago. In the Greek theater, you didn't have to pay anything. You actually had to go, and you just sat there all day.”

Pay Theater Greek Sat Chicago

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks as fraudsters, the French as lazy. Ms. Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.”

War Country Economic Europe Increase Police Greek Lazy Brotherhood Protected Hostility European Countries

Author:Marine Le Pen

“The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And the experience extends a whole lifetime. But the intensity of certain vocalized language affects our bodies in a particular way, and that further actualization propels me. The Greeks explored this; there were very particular meters used in making war, different ones for a love chant.”

Way Different War Whole Body Used Certain Language Particular Lifetime Whole Life Greek Pounds Intensity Puzzles Johnson Meter Emily Ark Actualization Conundrums

Author:Anne Waldman

“I look at Playtone, the company that produced My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I call them my Playtoners. They are the kindest people who treated me like gold before that movie made a dime. We became personal friends. When I think about how lovely and wonderful they are that convinces me that you don't have to make a deal with the devil to succeed. It's a choice.”

People Thinking Choices Wonderful Succeed Devil Gold Lovely Greek Convince

Author:Nia Vardalos

“What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very beginnings of Western history. I go back to the Greeks, I go back to the Romans. You can read Homer. And of course Homer has his great heroes involved in this myth, this wonderful mythic contest with savage tribal peoples, half-human monsters on distant parts of the world.”

World Wonderful Hero Conflict Western Myth Greek Savagery

Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.

“As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have a husband and kids everyone feels bad for you because you're a failure.”

Children Important Kids Winning Husband Married Greek Prize Nobel Prize

Author:Iris Smyles

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