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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I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.
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Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.
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And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
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Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!
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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.
