Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i.e., bell-curve), and almost computable.
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
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Mathematics is as old as Man.
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Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).
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The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.
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I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
