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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If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.
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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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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.
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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.
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You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation.
