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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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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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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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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I felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world - it was still running in the theatres - and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.'
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When Prussia hurried to the field,And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.
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It is blood which moves the wheels of history.
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Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.
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The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.
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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.
