Arto Paasilinna Quotes
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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I think we all have had better days in competition.
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You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
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As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
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I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.
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A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.
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We like to think that we are stronger than our compulsions. But when time after time we can't break a habit we so badly want to eliminate, we begin to realize that maybe our will power and self control aren't as strong as we thought they were. Maybe we are just as weak as everybody else.
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Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human.
