Lennart Meri Quotes
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I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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God is everywhere.
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like the 'Sopranos' - the last vestiges of once proud families subsumed by the modern era.
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I was struck with that particular passage which says: 'Seek ye the kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be added unto you.'
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.
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I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.
