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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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them.
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Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.
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I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.
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Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human.
