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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems."
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."
"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
"I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination."
"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
"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."
"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."
"Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense."
"Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
"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."
"Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping."
"My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation."
"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."
"One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries."
"There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on."
"Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year."
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
"These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound."
"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
"Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business."
"That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well."
"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
"Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit."
"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."
"There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is."
"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
"There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes."
"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
"I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs."
"I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much."
"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more."
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