Ken Liu Quotes

It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just need one person who really likes your story.

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• I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • World
  • Real
  • Friend

• I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Serious

• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Nothing

• But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Why
  • Influence

• L.A. makes you feel ugly.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Feel
  • Ugly

• Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Fear
  • Confidence

• I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Security

• In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • Truth
  • Only
  • Does

• Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • Risk
  • Meaning

• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Control

• If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Know
  • Like
  • Playing

• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Truth Is

• I don't mean to be funny.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Mean

• I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• All I want to do is change the world.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • World
  • Want
  • Change

• I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

  

  Denise Mina

• I think I've always sort of been on the more boyish spectrum of girls. For example, I've never been chosen as 'one of the top-five hottest actresses in a bikini.' And honestly, it's a godsend. When I was younger, I'd think, 'Oh, I'm the prettiest one. It's not Halle Berry. It's not!' But it is, you know?

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Honestly

• That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

  

  George Stigler
  • Interest
  • Abstract
  • Subject

• Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Injustice
  • Evil System
  • Strong Force

• You fight dandelions all week-end, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Pretty
  • Adversity
  • Monday

• It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just need one person who really likes your story.

  

  Ken Liu