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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you."
"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."
"The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays."
"We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs."
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens."
"When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was."
"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."
"I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."
"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
"I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness."
"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
"I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly."
"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."
"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
"I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds."
"In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results."
"That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens."
"When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver."
"It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation."
"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."
"In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided."
"There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes."
"Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did."
"Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many."
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal."
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
"I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul."
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
"If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women."
"It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s."
"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."
"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."
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