Esa Tikkanen Quotes
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
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I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
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The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
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Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox.
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A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.
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We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
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Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.
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In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.
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I don't think the way I look at myself has changed.
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I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.
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The devil and God are components of a Siamese twin. Neither has any existence apart from the other. In denying the existence of the one, Christians have helped to kill the other. If there need to be no fear of hell, people may well ask what is the attraction of heaven? Gods and devils were born together. Gods and devils will die together.
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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
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When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.
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Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
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Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
