Ken Liu Quotes
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I'm a real romantic.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
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The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
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Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.
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Even the gods fight boredom in vain.
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We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.
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Ruler of heaven, Ruler of every people! We knew not, O Christ! that it was thou. If we had known thee, Christ, we should have refrained from thee.
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Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.
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I'm very interested in foundational narratives.
