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

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

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

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

The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

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.

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.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

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

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

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.

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

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.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

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.

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

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

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

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.

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

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

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option.

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.