Ken Liu Quotes

I'm very interested in foundational narratives.

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• I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Beautiful
  • Clothes
  • Shock

• 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.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Kid
  • Disney
  • Been

• 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.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Place
  • Most
  • Still

• 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.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Science
  • Professional

• I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • Like
  • Place

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I'm a real romantic.

  

  Vanity
  • Real
  • Romantic

• 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.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Fun
  • You
  • Places

• I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Done
  • Training

• You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Talent
  • Determination

• '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.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Music
  • Book
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Together
  • Dream

• To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Consciousness
  • Pure

• 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.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Men
  • Women
  • Home

• Even the gods fight boredom in vain.

  

  Karl Schroeder

• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Cards

• For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

  

  Benjamin E. Mays
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

  

  Lena Headey
  • Small

• Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you ask? Like laundry, watermelon rind, the top of a baby's head, boiling water, and fresh cut grass all mixed together.

  

  Ann Burton
  • Together
  • Water
  • Joy

• I'm very interested in foundational narratives.

  

  Ken Liu