Nana Mouskouri Quotes

• I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

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  Believe, Sadness, Appreciate

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• When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

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  Want Something, Want

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• It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

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  Nice, Important, Looks

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• How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

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  Important, Way, Best Way

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• One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

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  Beautiful, Memories, House

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• I think sometimes you are born with a song.

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  Song, Thinking, Sometimes

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• I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.

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  Children, Future, Eye

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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.

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  Umpires, Needs, World

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• If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

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  Rooms, Emotion, Middle

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• The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

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  Wall, Berlin, Wonderful

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• When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

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  Sister In Law, Ugly Duckling, Ducklings

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• I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

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  Children, Giving, Luck

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• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

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  Love, Song, Prove

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• UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

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  Done, Made, Unicef

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• All children are my children.

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  Children, My Children

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• For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

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  Loss, Exercise, Voice

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• I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

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  Thinking, Singing, Grew Up

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• My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

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  Song, Soul, Firsts

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• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

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  Book, Silence, Three

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• I was born a singer. I need to do that.

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  Needs, Singers, Born

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• I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

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  Husband, Lunch, People

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• Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

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  Attention, Mouths, Habit

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• The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

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  War, Europe, Ideas

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• My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

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  Sight, Singing, Energy

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• I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.

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  Confused, Tired, Thinking

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