Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

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• I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Family
  • Business
  • Culture

• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • American
  • Impact

• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Same

• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Write
  • Create
  • Joke

• It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Free
  • Talk

• The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Best

• For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Me
  • Value

• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Fast

• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Step
  • Slow
  • Steady

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Loved

• I like that Barack got that job.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Job
  • Like
  • Got

• Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Life
  • Play
  • Luck

• We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Great
  • Like
  • Romantic

• I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • True
  • House
  • Always

• Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • World
  • Community
  • Now

• The only reason I can't recommend heroin to kids is because the effects wear off.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Kids
  • Reason
  • Effects

• The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Up
  • Live
  • Freedom

• Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Mind
  • May
  • Experience

• Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Marriage
  • Imagination

• When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work .

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Imagination
  • Limitless