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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Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.
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I don't buy this thing that our industry is responsible for all the ills of the world. We have great people at JPMorgan Chase. We operate with a lot of rigor. Our clients are happy with us.
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Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.
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I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.
