Rainn Wilson

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  • “And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people – not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base – is through education.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last ’60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “Dwight is a sad clown. You’ve seen those paintings of sad clown.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don’t live my life that way, and I don’t feel that’s what Baha’u’llah teaches.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we’re here: We’re here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life’s big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don’t get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I’m just a screwball all day long.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I like being a Baha’i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I think we’re the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It’s not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be…

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  • “You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you’re not sure what they got famous for.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I’m about as big a star as the Baha’i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I think we’re the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It’s not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be…

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  • “And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people – not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base – is through education.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life’s big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last ’60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life’s big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people – not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base – is through education.” -Rainn Wilson

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