Hannu Rajaniemi Quotes
I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
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Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.
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We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
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Mugabe hasn't done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.
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I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.
