Eric Liu Quotes
In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
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At the end of the day, I'm a man.
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My grandson, Max, who is an all state lacrosse player, once gave me some lacrosse advice: A limp pass is like a limp dick; it doesn't get the job done. I think the same can be said about limp writing.
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In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.
