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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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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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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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the frailty in the failures in the flaws. Maybe what I tried to get rid of is the goodest part of me. Think Passion. Think Age. Think Round. Maybe good is about developing the capacity to live fully inside everything. Our body is our country, the only city, the only village, the only every we will ever know.
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Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it.
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Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.
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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.
