Eric Liu Quotes
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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You know, America is - for me, it's the best country.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.
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When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
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To our enemies - to our enemies - we will pursue you as only America can. You will fear us.
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I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It's a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families.
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It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
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We have a lot of work to do in New Jersey, but I am darn proud we've brought our state back.
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I just never really though you could or couldn't listen to a certain type of music.
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America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.
