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Hari Kunzru Quotes

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

Hari Kunzru

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1969

Topics

Time Understanding Morality Moral

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

Jimmy Buffett

Man Loved Only Still Mississippi

The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes out. The urban, the cultivated, is hidden or negatived.

John Burroughs

Winter Solitude Wilderness Country

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

Angus Deaton

Grow Why Mysterious Slowly Some

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

Me You Tell Like

'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way.

Steve Aoki

Positive Future Technology Progress

Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.

Tony Scott

Art School Go Why Never Same

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Robert Walpole

Patriotism Patriot Up Demand Starts

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

Marty Meehan

Practice Writing End Real Laws Must

We did the 'MacGruber' Super Bowl spot for Pepsi, which generated some outside interest. We have a sketch where a guy blows up after 90 seconds. How are we going to make that into a movie?

Jorma Taccone

Super Bowl Sketch Outside Up Going

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

Jonah Hill

Culture Money You Temptation Bad

Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.

Claire Denis

Time People You Fast Say Dancing

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

Clark Kerr

Problems Sex Find Three Alumni