Eric Liu Quotes

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

Eric Liu

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CitizenshipImmigrantsForgetMore

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.

John Hickenlooper

TodayDiversityPeopleParisNew

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

Jeffrey Archer

LifePoliticsWritingMy LifeWay

With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

Jeff Goodell

WaterFoodFallLookAustraliaWill

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

Steven Pinker

PeopleThinkYouPrivilegeMore

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

Michael Schumacher

FamilyToughCareerSayLeaveBig

I always tell people, never wear anything that'll make them uncomfortable when you're trying to go out and have a good time.

Chris March

GoodTimePeopleUncomfortableYou

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

Chloe Grace Moretz

MeMomTreatPrincessLittleLike

'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

Chris Messina

BestYouProjectLooseImprovise

I got to share the Octagon with Clay Guida. I got to share the Octagon with Cub Swanson. Now I'm going to share the Octagon with Frankie Edgar. These are things that, as a fighter, you always dream of.

Brian Ortega

YouDreamNowFighterAlwaysClay

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.

Ally Carter

ParentsNeverFirstThingsBoxes

I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnings to pay for a bachelor's degree first and then a master's. I resented classmates who didn't have to work real jobs, the ones who had the luxury of taking unpaid internships that would eventually position them for high-paying careers.

Ali Liebegott

WorkFamilyCollegeLuxuryGoWay

I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.

Sean Combs

HappyBe HappySayingYouKnowWant

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