Eric Liu Quotes

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

Eric Liu

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I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith.

Joey Kramer

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I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience when he was in the picture.

Joel Silver

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The reality is that the institutional framework in which Wall Street operates is fundamentally inappropriate, and it inevitably generates violent fluctuations of the market.

Maurice Allais

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I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

Jeffree Star

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But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

Merton Miller

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I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.

John Shelton Reed

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It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

Stephen Hough

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Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

Spencer Abraham

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By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Robert Bly

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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Josef Skvorecky

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I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

Jon Johansen

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I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.

Jon Lovitz

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