Arto Paasilinna Quotes
It is hard to teach an old dog to sit, as well as it is difficult to teach an old Laplandian rafter to swim.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.
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To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
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The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
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Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.
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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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It is hard to teach an old dog to sit, as well as it is difficult to teach an old Laplandian rafter to swim.
