Eric Liu Quotes
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.Eric Liu
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble -
You have to find out how to become the character.
Kara Hayward -
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. Forster -
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
Tcheky Karyo -
I'm not super into sports.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
Zac Efron -
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
Aaron Staton
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
Irina Shayk -
I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
Paloma Faith -
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells -
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
Barbara Mikulski -
I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
S. Truett Cathy -
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
Wangari Maathai
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You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.
Ian Astbury The Cult -
I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.
Debby Ryan -
I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
Christine Baranski -
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
Vera Farmiga -
My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
Felicity Jones -
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.
Eric Liu