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“We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.”

Way Dies Born Loses Laughing Majors England China Thrive Shore Minors Maine Guinea Finland Moors

Book:The Complete Poetry

Source: The Complete Poetry

“The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.”

Ifs Writing May Book Funny Realizing Trouble Fool Honor Humorous Witty Dirty Liars About Yourself Thieves Autobiography Writing A Book Deviation Finland Honor Among Thieves

Book:Groucho And Me

Source: Groucho And Me

“O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)”

Russia Finland

Book:XAIPE

Source: XAIPE

“Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.”

“(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.)”

Ifs Nations Jokes Shoes Likes Staring Introverted Finnish Finland

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working hard in practice and making sure we stay sharp.”

Hard Moving Games Practice Study Huge Finals Moving Forward Hockey Finland

Author:Gillian Apps

“You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.”

People Country Culture Worst Britain Cuisine Great Britain Finland

Author:Jacques Chirac

“I ran for myself, not Finland.”

Running Ran Finland

Author:Paavo Nurmi

“We can't fire our way to Finland.”

Way Fire Finland

Author:Linda Darling-Hammond

“Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?”

Rotten Places To Live Finland

Author:David Attenborough

“Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.”

Divorce Explanation Foxes Correlation Finland

Author:Gunnar Myrdal

“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.”

Ifs Use Opportunity Common Creative Century Males Thrive 21st Century Counterparts Finland

Author:Tarja Halonen

“My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.”

Party Husband My Husband Finland Scandinavians

Author:Sarah Rafferty

“When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. Thats just the way it was.”

Way Children Kids Remember Hockey Sweden Finland Playing Hockey

Author:Teemu Selanne

“The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.”

“Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.”

Littles Made Action Film Actors Born Millions Shots Dollars Million Dollars Action Films Finland

Author:Renny Harlin

“I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.”

Finland

Author:Renny Harlin

“I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.”

Able Film Paper Reviews Papers Finland

Author:Renny Harlin

“In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.”

Firsts Children Kids Degrees University Finland University Degrees

Author:Renny Harlin

“He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they went to Finland to do that. That scene they went to Finland for a week. I wasn't around then.”

Week Amount Scene Horse Productions Saved Snow Finland Omar

Author:Rod Steiger

“Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.”

“Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.”

Should Country Energy Resources Variety Dependent European Countries Finland

Author:Tarja Halonen

“Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!”

Economy Sun Summer Winter Productive Digital Chocolate Developers Finland

Author:Trip Hawkins

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