Top 100 Kang Quotes
#1. At my age, what's the use of thinking about my talents? Effort is what's necessary. (Kang 1989: 117)
Kang Sok-Kyong
#2. We women were facing up to life with our own our bodies as our only asset. We may not have smelled like roses, but we got to learn all about life and freedom in our own way. (Kang 1989: 11)
Kang Sok-Kyong
#3. Yes, I am aware of the enticements required to obtain them," Kang replied with distaste. "I believe the Russians could teach the West a thing or two about capitalistic extortion.
Clive Cussler
#4. I, faggot Wenqing Kang, Ph. D. in History from UC Santa Cruz, do solemnly swear that homosexual relationships between men are more enjoyable and more harmonious than heterosexual relationships.
Bill Gaede
#5. So the story of Wild Fox Kang's attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the 1980s, when Chinese scholars discovered in Japanese archives the testimony of the designated killer, Bi, which established beyond doubt the existence of the plot.
Jung Chang
#6. I want to swallow you, have you melt into me and flow through my veins.
Han Kang
#7. Never look at what you want to change. Always look at what has changed.
Jane Kang
#8. As actors, we try to just do the character justice and try to make the writer's intentions come to life. If you do that to the best of your ability, that's really all you can do. All that other stuff, like a warm reception from fans and viewers, is just icing.
Tim Kang
#9. I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.
Kang Chol-Hwan
#10. Cosmopolitan theology affirms and radicalizes the belief that the Divine creates each and every human being as equal to every one else as a _citizen-of-the-cosmos and that no one is either superior or inferior to the other.
Namsoon Kang
#11. Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective
Namsoon Kang
#12. In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."
Eyvind Kang
#13. I was convinced that there was more going on here than a simple case of vegetarianism.
Han Kang
#14. There's nothing wrong with keeping quiet, after all, hadn't women traditionally been expected to be demure and restrained?
Han Kang
#15. I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."
Eyvind Kang
#16. On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.
Sung Kang
#17. When a person undergoes such a drastic transformation, there's simply nothing anyone else can do but sit back and let them get on with it.
Han Kang
#18. The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.
Eyvind Kang
#19. Trust no one, I scold myself. Even if they smell good.
Lydia Kang
#20. Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.
Eyvind Kang
#21. I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.
Sung Kang
#22. Why, is it such a bad thing to die?
Han Kang
#23. Guys who can't take care of their own women always covet other guys' women
Kang Min-hyuk
#24. [ ... ] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!
Kang Chol-Hwan
#25. Cosmopolitan discourse is in a way a response to the issue of solidarity. Although the precondition for solidarity can be a _community_, solidarity requires more intentional commitment and performance than does community.
Namsoon Kang
#26. I've produced before, and sometimes it's by default. In the indie level, you can't just come to set and be like, 'Oh, I'm an actor.' You have to be willing to help out, make the project happen.
Sung Kang
#27. All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.
Eyvind Kang
#28. I believe that dreaming an impossible world, is itself the task of theologies and that the disparity between the world-as-it-is (reality) and the world-as-it-ought-to-be (ideality) is where a prophetic call comes in.
Namsoon Kang
#29. Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.
Eyvind Kang
#30. But at the same time you know that if a time like that spring were to come around again, and even knowing what you know now, you might well end up making a similar choice to the one you'd made then.
Han Kang
#31. IF only one's eyes weren't visible to others, she thinks. If only one could hide one's eyes from the world.
Han Kang
#32. Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. So, as Asia becomes a much more economic influence on the products that are being made from America, I think people have to be sensitive.
Sung Kang
#33. I don't go into it trying to be this or that because that completely taints and corrupts the work that you're trying to do. But, I'm thankful and that definitely was a surprise. Hopefully, I'll keep doing stuff that remains interesting and fun for the audience.
Tim Kang
#34. I think the world is becoming more global. Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product.
Sung Kang
#35. This rain is tears shed by the souls of the departed.
Han Kang
#36. Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.
Namsoon Kang
#37. I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.
Song Kang-Ho
#38. Cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus' teaching and ministry, without any imperialist, kyriarchcal, hierarchical implications
Namsoon Kang
#39. _For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?
Namsoon Kang
#40. I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.
Namsoon Kang
#41. I believe recognizing the presence of the face of the other as existent, no matter who/what one is, is one of the core messages of Jesus' teaching.
Namsoon Kang
#42. As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families - they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence
Han Kang
#43. She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.
Kang Seung-jo
#44. Cosmopolitan discourse ... provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.
Namsoon Kang
#45. Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way
Han Kang
#46. Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'
Sung Kang
#47. Welcome to Aureus, land of illegal freaks. Have some torture and tea while you're here.
Lydia Kang
#48. What's the meaning of life?"
"I have been programmed by Hexus to reply 'meatballs,'" it says.
Lydia Kang
#49. The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.
Song Kang-Ho
#50. Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.
Eyvind Kang
#51. Perhaps the only things he truly loved were his images - those he'd filmed, or then again, perhaps only those he had yet to film.
Han Kang
#53. Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.
Jane Kang
#54. All of us have choice to make in life,"which one?" is up to you to choose!
Jeanhee Kang
#55. Why is such a bad thing to die?
Han Kang
#56. Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.
Sung Kang
#57. Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.
Namsoon Kang
#58. I felt that if others can overcome incredible challenges to be in shape, why would my story be any different?
Maria Kang
#59. If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.
Kang Youwei
#60. Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.
Eyvind Kang
#61. The only lesson I got pounded into me was about man's limitless capacity for vice - that and the fact that social distinctions vanish in a concentration camp. I once believed that man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion.
Kang Chol-Hwan
#62. When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.
Eyvind Kang
#63. Mom ... In my next life I have to be your son again. Then, I will definitely be a kind-hearted son that you love I love you, mom. I love you, mom. There has never been a moment that thoughts of you left my mind. Mom. That you gave birth to me. Thank you.
Kang Min-hyuk
#64. It melted in the rain ... it all melted ... I'd been just about to go down into the earth. There was nothing else for it if I wanted to turn myself upside down again, you see.
Han Kang
#66. Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people
Namsoon Kang
#67. Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back.
Sung Kang
#68. Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.
Eyvind Kang
#69. Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.
Namsoon Kang
#70. Such uncanny serenity actually frightened him, making him think that perhaps this was a surface impression left behind after any amount of unspeakable viciousness had been digested, or else settled down inside her as a kind of sediment.
Han Kang
#71. I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.
Eyvind Kang
#72. We will make you realize how ridiculous it was, the lot of you waving the national flag and singing the national anthem. We will prove to you that you are nothing but filthy stinking bodies. That you are no better than the carcasses of starving animals. -
Han Kang
#73. At the time, I remained relatively calm before that spectacle of horrors, which is perhaps the most telling indication of just how desensitized I had become. The more I witnessed such atrocities and rubbed shoulders with death, the more I desired to stay alive, no matter the cost.
Kang Chol-Hwan
#74. After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.
Han Kang
#75. The politics of trans-identity seeks to move from the _politics of singular identity_ to the _politics of multiple solidarities_ across various identities without abandoning one's personal attachments and commitments to the group that one finds significant.
Namsoon Kang
#76. The cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.
Namsoon Kang
#77. The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves.
Namsoon Kang
#78. Or perhaps it was simply that things were happening inside her, terrible things, which no one else could even guess at, and thus it was impossible for her to engage with everyday life at the same time.
Han Kang
#79. I was working in financing. I was buying and selling stocks for a market-maker on the options floor at the Pacific Stock Exchange. He took me under his wing and was training me to take over his accounts. That's the career I had embarked on, at the time.
Tim Kang
#80. How on earth could a complete stranger be expected to tease out the inner logic of something he himself had dreamed up, to find a way to make it come alive?
Han Kang
#81. There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.
Eyvind Kang
#82. I believe _cosmopolitanism_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of _transidentity_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or hybrid subjects in order to challenge conventional notions of exclusive belonging, identity and citizenship.
Namsoon Kang
#83. For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.
Song Kang-Ho
#84. Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.
Eyvind Kang
#85. Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with.
Sung Kang
#86. When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family.
Sung Kang
#87. I've actually started to drive slower. I never want to see a news headline that reads, 'The Chinese Guy from 'Fast & Furious' Pulled Over for a Speeding Ticket.'
Sung Kang
#88. Look, sister, I'm doing a handstand; leaves are growing out of my body, roots are sprouting out of my hands...they delve down into the earth. Endlessly, endlessly...yes, I spread my legs because I wanted flowers to bloom from my crotch; I spread them wide...
Han Kang
#89. I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some level, but it's also important not to impose your own emotions on some music that has its own emotions.
Eyvind Kang
#90. What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.
Eyvind Kang
#91. Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.
Han Kang
#92. Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't even realized was there.
Han Kang
#93. I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.
Eyvind Kang
#94. Life is simple: Make choices and don't look back.
Sung Kang
#95. the sight of her lying there utterly without resistance, yet armored by the power of her own renunciation, was so intense as to bring tears to his eyes.
Han Kang
#96. I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.
Han Kang
#97. It called to mind something ancient, something pre-evolutionary, or else perhaps a mark of photosynthesis, and he realized to his surprise that there was nothing at all sexual about it; it was more vegetal than sexual.
Han Kang
#98. There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.
Eyvind Kang
#99. Summer nights, washing my neck and back in the yard. The rope of cold water you pumped into the metal pail, scattering into brilliant jewels as you splashed it over my sweat-gummed skin. Remember how you laughed, watching me shudder and oooh.
Han Kang
#100. Time was a wave, almost cruel in its relentlessness
Han Kang
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