Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
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I love my fans, so when I get the chance to interact with them, it's beautiful.
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I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in.
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Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
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He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being made for education or entertainment.
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By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.
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Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.
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I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.
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I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.
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Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range of federal programs, including tax credits available to millions of households in the States that do not pay federal income taxes.
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You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation.
