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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No man may make another free.
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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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I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.
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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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Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.
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When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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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.
