Aimee Liu Quotes

Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

Aimee Liu

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• Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Me
  • Collection

• Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Why
  • Problem
  • Matter

• I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Think
  • Know
  • Personality

• Actors can't retire. What would they do?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Would
  • Retire

• I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Said
  • Say
  • Vote

• For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Experience
  • True
  • Crazy

• Whenever I Google for clothes, I always look at what Angelina Jolie is wearing. I love Sienna Miller, and I really like Rihanna's style, too. There's the edgy girl, classy girl, and the Bohemian chic girl. I guess I'm all of that combined into one.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Style

• I never responded to teaching.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Never
  • Teaching

• Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Science
  • Education
  • Support

• As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Always
  • Almost

• I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • True
  • Inspired

• Few people know how to be old.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • People
  • Know
  • Old

• I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Play

• You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Think
  • Know
  • Player

• The FCC does not have performance goals or measures to assess the specific impact of the fund or to improve the management of the program.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Goals
  • Management
  • FCC

• I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Culture
  • Chuck
  • Berries

• I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Great
  • Different
  • Writing

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Free
  • Problem

• What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Choices
  • Media

• I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.

  

  Nico Muhly
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Available

• Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

  

  Aimee Liu
  • Eating
  • Distress
  • Disorders