Lennart Meri Quotes
Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.
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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
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I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.
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Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.
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I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?
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Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.
