Eric Liu Quotes

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

Eric Liu

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CollegeAmericaPerfectKnowClass

I want to be a writer someday.

Andrea Barber

WantSomedayWriter

Louisiana wants a leader that will take their values to D.C. and will fight for them without wavering.

John Fleming

LeaderFightValuesWillWithout

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

John Legend

GoodCityFashionInterestingLondon

Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.

John Higgins

PurposePeopleWinLoseWrongWant

At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.

Stanley Hauerwas

LiveHopeMake A DifferenceTrying

To be able to do what you truly love for a living is a gift.

Trombone Shorty

LoveGiftYouLivingAbleTruly

If someone is judging you without knowing the content of your character, don't listen to them.

Jazz Jennings

CharacterSomeoneYouListenKnowing

I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

Don Miguel Ruiz

TruthScienceLightSoulMedical

I go from being not known to being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general. It's going to be a little bit of a change to me. I'm going to have to adapt. But that doesn't change things. I still have to work really hard every day.

Denis Shapovalov

WorkChangeDayMeWorldEvery Day

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

Christina Perri

MusicMemoryListeningSingingSong

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

Claire Danes

SchoolFirstPsychologyStartedTook

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

Alison Krauss

HomeMeCrazyLookLondonUp

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