In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do. — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here. — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it.… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970's winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working… — Gillian Apps Copy Share Image
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
“The Swedes have coined the term 'management by perkele' to portray the Finnish managerial approach. Instead of collectively pondering all the possible… — Tarja Moles Copy Share Image
I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Females avoid conflict. They are afraid of violence. The males, on the other hand, are less averse to strife. But once conflict… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
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… — Aleksis Kivi Copy Share Image
In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland. — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
