Ken Liu Quotes
Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.
Ken Liu
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
Hanna Rosin
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
Felix Dennis
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
Dan Pink
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid
I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
Rafe Spall
I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
OMI
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Ferdinand Marcos
I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
Canelo Alvarez
When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
Frances Mayes
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx
I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
Kate Moss
I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
Taylor Hackford
The Quakers sent me books, from which I learnt how they had, years ago, established beyond doubt the duty for a Christian of fulfilling the command of non-resistance to evil by force, and had exposed the error of the Church's teaching in allowing war and capital punishment.
Leo Tolstoy
It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.
Seth Godin
'All true stories end in death.'
Matthew Stover
I also begin where he began, and follow wither the dream led him. Meanwhile, I can but entreat you to remember it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.
James Branch Cabell
Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.
Ken Liu
