Lennart Meri Quotes

• Traveling is the only passion that doesn’t need to feel shy in front of intellect.

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• With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

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• Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

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• That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.

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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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• 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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• 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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• If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

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• I’ve never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

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• I was too busy looking into Yeltsin’s eyes to notice what was under the table.

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• I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

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• History is more interesting than politics.

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Lennart Meri (14)

Birth:	29th March, 1929
Death:	14th March, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Writer

About

Lennart Georg Meri was a writer, film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was a leader of the Estonian independence movement.

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