Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I think all politicians lie.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I like things simple.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.
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I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
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The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.
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I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?
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No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.
