Alma (Alma-Sofia Miettinen) Quotes
I haven’t had time to stop and think about all the things that have happened but it’s just crazy. I’m super glad and super honored that people like me. It’s just crazy. Also as a Finnish person that has never happened. I’m the only one from Finland, so it just feels super good.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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Money without brains is always dangerous.
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It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it.
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The spine of the FBI is the rule of law. The spine of the FBI is a commitment to doing the right thing, in the right way, while protecting civil liberties.
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Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.
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Elie Wiesel and his book 'Night' have changed my life, shifting the way I see and treat people and inspiring me to fight injustices any way I am able.
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Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.
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It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'
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If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
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In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: 'That must be nice.'
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There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
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It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?
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I haven’t had time to stop and think about all the things that have happened but it’s just crazy. I’m super glad and super honored that people like me. It’s just crazy. Also as a Finnish person that has never happened. I’m the only one from Finland, so it just feels super good.
