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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term."
"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."
"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."
"Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States."
"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
"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 should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city."
"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
"So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out."
"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."
"Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
"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."
"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
"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."
"In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems."
"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less."
"Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit."
"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."
"We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum."
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
"I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there."
"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free.""
"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."
"It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people."
"The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full."
"The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality."
"We are a model country where gender equality is concerned."
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