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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"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."
"The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies."
"Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day."
"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"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."
"What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out."
"In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems."
"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."
"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
"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."
"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex."
"You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term."
"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."
"Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less."
"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."
"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."
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
"Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art."
"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."
"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues."
"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.""
"I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there."
"We are a model country where gender equality is concerned."
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