Lennart Meri Quotes

That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

• I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Reflect

• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • High
  • Muse
  • Conqueror

• Tom Brokaw was never young.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Never
  • Young
  • Tom

• On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Want
  • Understand

• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Want
  • Need

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Religion

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Lost

• What expressions we used – in part taken over and in part newly invented! - above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us ‘perpendicularly from above,’ the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• Yeah, letting go - even just musically, aside from emotionally - I find that quite challenging. Knowing the right time for letting go of my album, for instance, was a really big challenge. Knowing when to put the red flags up and say, "It's done..." And also, emotionally, with relationships.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.

  

  John Milton
  • Words

• If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Far
  • Obstacle

• That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.

  

  Lennart Meri
  • World
  • Important