Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.

Chang-Rae Lee

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• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Way
  • Growing
  • Fight

• I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Boy
  • Realize

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Family
  • Words

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Actor
  • Hard
  • Coffee

• It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Look
  • Own

• If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Done

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• I heard the hiss and felt the blessed numbness spreading. If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • God
  • Blessed

• This is not a dictadura dictatorship/hard rule but a dictablanda soft rule.

  

  Augusto Pinochet

• There shall be no love lost.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Lost

• I know little about the women of my own race...

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Women

• The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard’s legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world’s greatest con man. Hubbard was certainly grandiose, but to label him merely a fraud is to ignore the complexity of his character.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • World
  • Important
  • Character

• The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

  

  Les Dawson
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Law

• It is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Today
  • Mountain
  • Tomorrow

• For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Desire
  • Moments
  • Vulnerable