Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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I'll tell you God's truth: I think that this script that Neil has written - 'Odd Couple Two,' I think, is superior to the original one - to the first one.
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A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
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Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.
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The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.
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The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
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Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings.
