Eric Liu Quotes
To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.
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I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer.
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It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
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Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world.
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Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.
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To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.
