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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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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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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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
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I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.
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The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
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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.
