Eric Liu Quotes
In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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I live by a rulebook of eating alkaline - no meat, no dairy, no gluten, I try to stay away from sugar - but I'll cheat when I want to since I'm a bit of a foodie.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
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Broadway has been my dream since I was 5 years old.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.
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I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.
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Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
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There was a dodgy digital period when things didn't sound that great, but now we are figuring that out. The basics haven't changed, which is talented human beings playing together in a room.
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Pity they didn’t devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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It's my life. It just continues to go forward from 'The Apprentice.'
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The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
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But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do.
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It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.
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Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
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Touring for two years is excruciating.
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When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself
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Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.
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In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
