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Finland is no utopia.
I ran for myself, not Finland.
We can't fire our way to Finland.
O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)
Finland must not be allowed to disappear off the map.
In Finland and the U.K. you can't predict the weather.
Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
It's very Finnish to think you can't make it outside Finland.
I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.
I have sung at Christmas many times in Finland, especially in churches.
I grew up in Finland, so it's cold in Finland, we have ice rinks outdoors.
My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.
It's always been my dream to sing for Simon Cowell, plus I wanted to get out of Finland.
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.
There are not actually many people in Finland who are openly gay together, let alone two women.
I studied to be a car mechanic. That was my plan B. Servicing cars and changing tyres in Finland.
I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
I came second in 'The Voice of Finland' in 2012 and my career really exploded at home. I had 300 gigs a year.
People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.
Finland is dark and grey, but I'm a very happy, colorful, positive person - and I feel like Eurovision is all about that.
In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.
With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
Growing up in Finland, ice hockey was the main sport. But I never played that. I went with footy. I never had any other hobbies.
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
(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.)
Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.
I was always the flamboyant one and the one who wanted to be really bubbly and wanted to perform in a big way, but it's not very typical in Finland.
When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.
One small decision, for me to get on a flight from Finland to the U.K. - I had no idea how that one small thing could just change my whole life forever.
I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.
I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really learn it, I need to move to Finland.
Private schools cannot be the answer to nation's needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.
They haven't had 'The X Factor' in Finland for ten years. But because I was on it and it was such a hit, they decided to bring it back and have me as a judge.
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.
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!
Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.
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.
The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.
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.
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.
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.
The president in Finland has to understand that there are many different thoughts and opinions and that they must be taken into account so that he could be the president of the whole nation.
Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models - we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.
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.
My favourite team was always Barcelona. When I was young, I went to see them, my first ever big game. Jari Litmanen was playing there at the time. In Finland, Litmanen is a big hero for all of us.
In Finland, where 80 percent of workers belong to unions, all employees enjoy at least 30 days paid vacation, and the gap between the rich and poor is far more equitable than in the United States.
The thing is, Finland is such a small country. It only has a population of five million, which is half of London. There's nothing there. I just had to get out. The U.K. is the perfect place to come.