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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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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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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Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.
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Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.
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Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
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Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'
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In a well-made garden every day is new.
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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.
