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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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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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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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
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As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?
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Everyone today plays the same way, very dull. ... It is a pity there are no characters like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or, maybe, Ilie Nastase today.
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I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?
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When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.
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To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.
