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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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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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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This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
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It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
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To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
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The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.
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People often ask me, 'How do you go about choosing who to feature on Into The Gloss?' And I've never had a great answer. Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom.
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That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.
