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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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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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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It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
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The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.
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'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
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I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
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Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings.
