Harri Holkeri Quotes

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

Harri Holkeri

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I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.

Joe Perry

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I make sure that I take good care of me.

Jerry Lewis

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When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.

Jeff Kinney

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I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.

Jeff Koons

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To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

John Strachan

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I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.

Tony Shalhoub

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I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.

Rob Portman

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I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

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There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

Jay Nixon

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Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

Joss Whedon

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I'm interested in helping secure the PC - we need innovation here. It's not just hug your PC, hate the iPhone. In fact I don't even hate the iPhone; I think it's really cool. I just don't want it to be the center of the ecosystem along with the Web 2.0 apps.

Jonathan Zittrain

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