Ken Liu Quotes
I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.Ken Liu
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
Garry Shandling -
I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
Barbara Corcoran -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
Malcolm D. Lee -
We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
R. J. Cutler -
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
Patrick Stewart
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
Gaston Caperton -
One can not impede scientific progress.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
Tarvaris Jackson -
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Ogden Nash -
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
Patrick Collison
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
Walker Stapleton -
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
Mahesh Babu -
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
Imogen Cunningham -
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Edmund Hillary -
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Ralph W. Sockman
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'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher -
I am just a guy who plays drums.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
Lester B. Pearson -
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.
Willis Lamb -
I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.
Ken Liu