Hannu Rajaniemi Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.
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We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
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I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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I’m tighter than face lifts and flyer than spaceships.
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When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself.
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I like the challenge of getting players to rise to certain levels, but that's the easy part. The biggest challenge is to get them to believe in what we're doing. They have to understand that it's O.K. to have good days and bad days.
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I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire.
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I always loved the way you are so quick to see everybody else as monsters.
