Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I don't care about revenues.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
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Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
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I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
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I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. And that's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.
