Roza Eskenazi - Dedicated to the singer; provides information about her biography, her career and a brief history of Rembetiko genre.
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For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
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-- Anonymous Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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- Martin Luther King Jr. The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Virginia Woolf I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Bands and Artists
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
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-- William James The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Bands and Artists
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-- Ronald Reagan Bands and Artists
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
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-- Marcus Aurelius Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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how to make us disobedient.
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-- Niels Bohr Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Bands and Artists
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
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-- Robert Frost Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
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-- Virginia Woolf It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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