Tae Yun Kim Quotes

Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can express it. You must love yourself before you can give it to another.

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• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

  

  Sai Baba
  • Water
  • Sun
  • Sky

• 'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • You
  • Food
  • Couple

• There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Time
  • History
  • Never

• I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Lost
  • Cities
  • Following

• If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Eyes

• I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

  

  Samm Levine
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Sleep
  • Weird
  • Clothes

• I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Parents

• At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Week
  • Three
  • Someone

• It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Time
  • Good
  • Babies

• I am rather inclined to silence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Silence

• I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Surprised
  • Prize
  • Novelist

• Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Great
  • Success
  • Fear

• I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Time
  • Song
  • Words

• There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Character
  • True
  • Health

• Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

  

  Edward de Bono

• In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

  

  Aaron Rose
  • Time
  • Light
  • Extraordinary

• These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Women
  • Ripe
  • Cord

• Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

  

  Chad Kroeger Nickelback
  • Up
  • True
  • Universe

• I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

  

  Mathieu Amalric

• Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

  

  Moliere
  • Beauty
  • Intelligence
  • Hook

• Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can express it. You must love yourself before you can give it to another.

  

  Tae Yun Kim