"Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for imÂmorÂtalÂity."

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Source : Hannu Rajaniemi (2012). “The Fractal Prince”, p.82, Hachette UK

Hannu Rajaniemi

#Pay Quotes #Who You Are Quotes

“There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.”
“I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.”
“Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.”
“When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.”

Source : "Larry Clark’s America". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.
“The media we surround ourselves with allows us to manufacture our own experience every day, which is a perception of the world that is our own invention entirely, whether it is on social media or what we choose to absorb. This was very different when I was a kid, like generations before us we were exposed to things that were not entirely on our terms. We had to wrestle with and find the relationship with the world around you. It was literal experience, unlike the form of protracted psychic masturbation that is the digital world we live in.”
“I was initially a leading man, but only on television.”
“I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.”
“Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.”

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