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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds."
"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."
"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."
"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."
"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."
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
"I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland."
"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."
"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."
"Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit."
"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
"Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did."
"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done."
"As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less."
"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."
"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."
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
"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."
"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
"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."
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."
"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."
"Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense."
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