Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.
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I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.
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I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped-as it is when you've been shot across the chest.
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I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
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I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.
