Ken Liu Quotes

I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.

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• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • True
  • Goal

• I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Up
  • California
  • Diversity

• It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Matter
  • Repetition

• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Children
  • Best

• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hair

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• Cricket was my reason for living.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Reason
  • Living
  • Cricket

• When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Great
  • Future
  • Energy

• Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Trust
  • Snooze

• I've been racketeered on.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Been

• We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Choices

• I'd change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That's just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • Up
  • Career
  • Star

• Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

  

  Jim Goetz
  • Life
  • Up
  • Poetry

• Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Car
  • Horse

• In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Unique