Hari Kunzru Quotes
There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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The best way to be with your spirit is to forgive.
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Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
