Ken Liu Quotes
Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.
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I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
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From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entebbe, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country's enemies at bay.
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There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.
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I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.
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When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.
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We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.
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If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
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We accept that there are legitimate casus belli: acts or situations 'provoking or justifying war'. The present debate feels off-centre, and faintly unreal, because the US and the UK are going to war for a new set of reasons (partly undisclosed) while continuing to adduce the old set of reasons (which in this case do not cohere or even overlap).
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The current Legislature has determined that HB 616 (the new law) provides each community with sufficient funds to provide a constitutionally adequate education.
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There is only good art and mediocre art.
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Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.
