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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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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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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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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Iuppiter ex alto periuria ridet amantum.
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Is that a real country?
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While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism against the public, with a variety of programmes and interventions to address it, everyday violence against women occurring in the name of fundamentalism has long been neglected.
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But out of limitations comes creativity.
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Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
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I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.
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I'm very interested in foundational narratives.
