Renny Harlin Quotes

I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

Renny Harlin

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• Dark are the paths which a higher hand allows us to traverse here... let us hold fast to the faith that a finer, more sublime solution of the enigmas of earthly life will be present, will become part of us.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Hand

• My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'

  

  James Hong
  • Why
  • She
  • Remember

• I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Experience

• The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace.

  

  N. C. Wyeth
  • Work
  • Children
  • Character

• Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • People
  • Singer
  • Finland

• I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Language
  • Learn
  • Move

• I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Reviews
  • Papers
  • Finland

• It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Impossible
  • Industry
  • Features

• I have given myself dork shivers so many times that I would be an outright liar if I characterized myself as anything other than a pure, utter, and unadulterated dork.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Liar

• The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life's work.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.

  

  Bill Buford
  • People

• I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.

  

  Jon Beason
  • Game
  • Career
  • Respect

• I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Imagine
  • Qualified
  • Larcenous

• At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive that starts the corruption of the files.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Birth
  • Corruption
  • Starts

• These were her rituals, the rutines that made her feel alive and connected. Without them, where would she be? Lost

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Lost
  • Connected
  • Rituals

• Sometimes it's hard to tell, but I feel like I'm definitely getting better. I'm learning more than I've ever learned. Now it's just a matter of time before I can incorporate that into what I'm doing on the court.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Learned
  • Court
  • Incorporate

• I'm just happy there are characters in the world. I think that anybody who's completely nuts and makes the world a more interesting place is good by me, as long as they're not hurting others.

  

  Cassie Ramone
  • World
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Knowledge

• I remembered what had been circling in me: I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying.

  

  Ada Limon
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Dying

• Chamdi is always uncomfortable when he asks for something. Each morning, all the children collect in this prayer room and, instead of praying, they close their eyes and make demands. Chamdi does not feel this is real prayer. To him, real prayer means sending a bright thought, like "Thank you" or "I love you", too heaven. That is prayer. The moment you ask for something, the prayer room becomes a marketplace.

  

  Anosh Irani
  • Prayer
  • Ask
  • Demands

• Being sexy, to me, is possessing the full package: the brains, the drive, inner confidence, spiritual foundation, a positive attitude, proceeding through obstacles, making a positive contribution to the world, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Mya
  • Attitude
  • Sexy
  • Lifestyle

• I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Finland