Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.
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There is a lot of work to be done to make sure our leaders reflect the people they are supposed to represent. The more diverse a group of decision makers is, the more informed the decision will be. Until we achieve full representation, we all should understand we are falling short of the ideals of our country.
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In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.
