Lennart Meri quotes
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“History is more interesting than politics.”
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“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.”
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“Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.”
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“Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.”
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“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.”
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“Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.”
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“Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.”
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“Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect,”
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“If geography is prose, maps are iconography,”
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“Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.”
-- Lennart Meri
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