Finland Quotes

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

  Renny Harlin

  Children, Kids, University Degrees

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• 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.

  Harri Holkeri

  War, Independent, Years

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• 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!

  Trip Hawkins

  Summer, Winter, Chocolate

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• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

  Harri Holkeri

  Sex, Men, Rights

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• The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

  Harri Holkeri

  Country, Sea, Water Of Life

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• 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.

  Tarja Halonen

  Opportunity, Creative, Males

  Speech at The Opening Of The Women Of Learning Exhibition In Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.

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• It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

  Renny Harlin

  Impossible, Film, Fund

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• 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.

  Teemu Selanne

  Children, Kids, Hockey

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

  Renny Harlin

  Paper, Able, Film

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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

  Renny Harlin

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• 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.

  Rod Steiger

  Horse, Snow, Week

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• 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

  Dollars, Actors, Littles

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

  Tarja Halonen

  Country, Energy, Resources

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• The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

  Howard Gardner

  Country, Teacher, Japan

  "The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

  Ville Valo

  Spiritual, Country, Religious

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• My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Country, Quiet

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• Finland must not be allowed to disappear off the map.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Maps, Disappear

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• (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.)

  Susan Cain

  Shoes, Likes, Staring

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.14, Broadway Books

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

  David Attenborough

  Rotten, Places To Live

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

  e. e. cummings

  Russia

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “XAIPE”, p.43, W. W. Norton & Company

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• America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Communication, America, Silence

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• How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Country, Military

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• We can't fire our way to Finland.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Fire, Way

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• To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!

  Aleksis Kivi

  Beautiful, Dream, Fall

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• In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, School, Government

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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