Quotes by Finnish/Finland authors (page 4)

"The most important thing is to stay positive"

Saku Koivu, Athlete

"It's been tough for me being away from the game"

Saku Koivu, Athlete

"Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them"

Georg Henrik von Wright, Philosopher

"The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays"

Ville Valo, Musician

"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"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now"

Saku Koivu, Athlete

"We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems"

Alvar Aalto, Architect

"Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less"

Alvar Aalto, Architect

"I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older"

Saku Koivu, Athlete

"Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how"

Georg Henrik von Wright, Philosopher

"Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music"

Ville Valo, Musician

"There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done"

Ville Valo, Musician

"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"

Ville Valo, Musician

"If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either"

Georg Henrik von Wright, Philosopher

"We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money"

Ville Valo, Musician

"My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research"

Renny Harlin, Director

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

Renny Harlin, Director

"I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences"

Renny Harlin, Director

"You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do"

Renny Harlin, Director

"This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything"

Renny Harlin, Director

"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"

Renny Harlin, Director

"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"

Renny Harlin, Director

"When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next"

Kimi Raikkonen, Celebrity

"I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity"

Kimi Raikkonen, Celebrity

"I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul"

Renny Harlin, Director

"I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different"

Renny Harlin, Director

"Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit"

Renny Harlin, Director

"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"

Renny Harlin, Director

"A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them"

Renny Harlin, Director

"Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind"

Paavo Nurmi, Athlete

"Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that"

Kimi Raikkonen, Celebrity

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Quotes by Finnish authors