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All Quotes by author - Lennart Meri
" History is more interesting than politics. "
Politics
Interesting
History
" I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received. "
Am
Compliments
Happy
" If geography is prose, maps are iconography. "
Prose
Iconography
Geography
" In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary. "
Past
Time
Admire
" I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow. "
Milk
Met
General
" I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table. "
Busy
Too
Table
" Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave. "
Looking
Day
Tie
" Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. "
Time
Lost
Measure
" Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. "
Back
Big
Will
" Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't. "
Like
You
Virginity
" That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world. "
Radio
Important
World
" Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me. "
Me
Happening
Understood
" Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect. "
Shy
Feel
Intellect
" With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded. "
Swimming
Always
West
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