Eric Liu Quotes
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
Mandy Bujold -
It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
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I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
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I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
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If the early Chinese people had any chivalry, it was manifested not toward women and children, but toward old people. That feeling of chivalry found clear expression in Mencius in some such saying as, 'The people with gray hair should not be seen carrying burdens on the street,' which was expressed as the final goal of good government.
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Most Americans are unaware that Thomas Jefferson was the first American president to go to war against radical Islam. Jefferson was very concerned with Islam's war-like doctrine and its inability to separate mosque and state.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.
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My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
