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Toomas Hendrik Ilves Quotes

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: estonian
Birth: December 26, 1953

Topics

Age American Three Living Up Accent

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

Michael Ian Black

Music I Am Bad Standards Anything

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

Character Woman Own Her Movie

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Parenting Single Greatest Preserve

I'm a chai tea latte monster. Anything syrupy!

Suki Waterhouse

Tea Monster Anything

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want to read a particular so-called classic, I go ahead and read it. If I had more time, I would certainly read more, but I'd read the way I always do - that is, I'd read whatever happened to interest me, not necessarily classics.

Great Time Me Someone Go Want

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Yourself Think Slow Feeling Horrible

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

Conflict World Think Fighting Well

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.

Martina McBride

Music Memories Learn Country Listen

I really enjoyed working with Guy Ritchie. One, it gave me a career, and two, they're probably a couple of the best films I've ever done.

Best Me Career Done Two Guy

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

Funny Man People Me You Television

I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish.

American Feel Los Angeles Said Say

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

Work Good Thinking Drawing Down

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