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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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
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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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Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
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I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.
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How much more satisfying to seduce an angel than 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.
