Ken Liu Quotes
The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.
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The world has to have zero tolerance for naked dictatorship.
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The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.
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I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.
