Eric Liu Quotes
What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'
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Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.
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If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.
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Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.
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What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.
