Eric Liu Quotes
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
Eric Liu
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E. M. Forster
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
Parker Posey
You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
Usain Bolt
It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
Emile Zola
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.
Robert Frost
I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.
Wallace Stegner
I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.
Prabal Gurung
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Rene Magritte
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
Eric Liu
