Eric Liu Quotes
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
Quotes to Explore
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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A real job is a job you hate.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
