Aleksis Kivi Quotes

A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.

Aleksis Kivi

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• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

  

  Larry David
  • American
  • Food
  • Lunch

• Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Actor
  • Critics
  • Golfer

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Story
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Answer
  • Take
  • Fighter

• My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • True
  • Words

• I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Real
  • Job
  • Father

• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  

  Oskar Werner
  • Movies
  • Married
  • Mistress

• Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Like
  • Moment
  • Completion

• It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Look
  • Feet
  • Cute

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Working

• People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • Believe
  • Black

• I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.

  

  Babyface
  • Work
  • Great
  • Perfect

• I recently saw HBO's 'Getting On,' and I was like, 'That's awesome.' I love that tone. It's a great show.

  

  Danielle Schneider
  • Great
  • Awesome

• I didn't open a restaurant, but I did go to a few cooking schools. It was too much like hard work!

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Work
  • Cooking

• A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Daughter
  • Lawyer
  • Africa

• When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • World
  • Man
  • Car

• I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
  • Rock
  • King

• A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.

  

  Aleksis Kivi
  • Desire
  • Rock
  • Person