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.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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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.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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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.
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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.'
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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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.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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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?
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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.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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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.
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I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.
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I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.
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I believe in love because I've seen it. I've been there.
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Words belong to each other.
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That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.
