Li Lu Quotes
I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
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Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
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I go to dinner with my friends, and we're like, 'Let's put our phones on airplane mode so we can really enjoy each other's company.'
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Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.
