Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.
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You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.
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I do care about the consequences of being negative toward people who are powerful. But I'm more afraid of not being taken seriously as a critic - by editors, by readers.
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I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.
