Eric Liu Quotes
The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
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I just want to work with wonderful people.
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We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.
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Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
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There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a variety of reasons, but fundamentally comes out of how that particular experience connects with your effective systems of response.
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The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.
