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.Martti Ahtisaari
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
Mamata Banerjee -
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.
Sam Shepard -
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
Kate Mulgrew -
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
Jack Vance -
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.
Barry McGee -
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
Daisy Berkowitz -
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett -
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
Gary Cooper -
I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
Sally Hawkins -
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.
Haile Gebrselassie -
There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
Walter Dean Myers
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson -
The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i.e., bell-curve), and almost computable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
Karl Marx -
It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it. 1947, on his painting 'She wolf'
Jackson Pollock -
In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect - connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.
E. M. Forster -
I always wanted to be a Broadway star. That's actually what I wanted to be when I was a kid. I wanted to be the 19-year-old sensation on Broadway. It took a little bit longer than that.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
Kai Greene -
Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.
Barbara Marx Hubbard -
Few men are killed by bayonets, but many are scared by them. Having the bayonet fixed makes our men want to close. Only the threat to close will defeat a determined enemy.
George S. Patton -
I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
Martti Ahtisaari