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Eric Liu Quotes

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

Eric Liu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1968

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Silence Identity You Anchor Right

I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.

Jewel

Family Together School Research You

I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.'

Matthew Desmond

Me Looking Book Poverty Poor Write

The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.

Ann Dowd

Time First Time First Leftovers Get

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

John Pople

Children Back Summer Educated Up

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

Tori Amos

Girl Time Feet Mouth Dirty First

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Michelangelo

Wisdom Short Achieving Aim High Low

I grew up in Colorado and spent my summers in Montana as a ranch hand.

Chris Eigeman

Colorado Hand Up Ranch Montana Grew

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Chris Evans

Happiness Peace World Acting Never

The Everton goal was very important. It was the one that got us through, and it was great to go into the crowd and celebrate with the fans.

Anthony Martial

Great Celebrate Goal Go Important

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

Anne Fortier

Age History Art Architecture Past

I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.