Hannu Rajaniemi Quotes
That one difference between animals and humans is that humans rarely admit to themselves what it is they really want.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.
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Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
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We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
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I have always tried to do everything that's been in my power to defend and sustain our institutions. I have demonstrated in my public life that I loyally serve my country and that I love freedom. It has been my sole purpose to propose what I think best for your highest interests, which are to strengthen peace in the future and strengthen our institutions.
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I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
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The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
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We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?
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That one difference between animals and humans is that humans rarely admit to themselves what it is they really want.
