Harri Holkeri Quotes
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanche is amazing.
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I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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We are on our way to blockchains as the fabric of society - the system for what we own (assets), who we are (identity), how we make decisions (governance), and more in an increasingly digital world. It's going to be a wild ride.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
