Ken Liu Quotes
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven by individual authors, with individual concerns.
Quotes to Explore
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Those who go along get along.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
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It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
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There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.
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Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven by individual authors, with individual concerns.
