Eric Liu Quotes
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
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I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
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It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.
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I was neitherLiving nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
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When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: -When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; -When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.
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Perl will always provide the null.
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I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.
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Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
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He had the settled expression of a certain kind of peasant-the kind that accepts, with protest but without malice, the vagaries of life. It is the gift life sends to compensate for the lack of a high I.Q.
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It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth.
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As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
