Tarja Halonen Quotes
European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
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I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
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I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.
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I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
