Ken Liu Quotes

The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • School
  • Power

• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Different
  • Perfect

• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• Doing the right thing has power.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Power
  • The Right Thing

• I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • Sell
  • Turkey

• A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • World
  • Power
  • Woman

• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Different
  • Long
  • Night

• The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Different
  • Learn

• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • White

• The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Technology
  • Film
  • Dead

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Knowing

• I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Power
  • Style

• The trajectory of nearly all technology follows this downward and widening path: by the time a regular person is able to create his own TV network, it doesn't matter anymore that I have or am on a network.

  

  David Shields
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Path

• I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God
  • Church
  • Catholic

• Really, I don't like roller coasters.

  

  Kevin Hart

• I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Character
  • Perspective
  • Down

• Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Music
  • Political
  • Funny

• The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Different
  • Power
  • Technology