Paavo Haavikko (Anders Lieksman) Quotes
Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.
Paavo Haavikko
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At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.
Baba Kalyani
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
B. B. King
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
Bas Rutten
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
Jacki Weaver
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I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
Kate Moss
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At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
Leonard Woolf
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Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
Oprah Winfrey
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I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.
Rachael Ray
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One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.
Damon Runyon
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I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had been a Norse mythology fan since I was a kid and was thrilled to discover a comic that was kind of based on Norse mythology-there's not a one-to-one correspondence, but there's no reason there should be. I was delighted to find it, and I didn't care that it wasn't exactly the myth. For one thing, Thor didn't have red hair in the comics. I was fine with that.
Walt Simonson
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For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
