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There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.
There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.
You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.
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.
Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.
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Abu Abbas
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