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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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
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I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
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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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He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.
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I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.
