Eric Liu Quotes

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

Eric Liu

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I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

Joe Eszterhas

BrotherThinkSmokingKindBigUsed

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

John Brunner

InterestingMoreAlwaysFactMyths

If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain, your own sovereignty. Trouble is, so much of the choice land - the land where all the people are - is already owned by someone else: By Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Apple (in apps, anyway).

John Battelle

PeopleSomeoneYouAppleChoice

Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups.

Melissa Rivers

FriendGodAgeYouWorstOver

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Steve Buscemi

PeopleProblemsLikeStoriesSimpler

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

Steve Albini

GoodChildPeopleFreeSpeedYou

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.

Steven Seagal

LifeActionRealityRealReal Life

Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.

Robert Dallek

LifeFutureDayPeopleEndView

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

Mitt Romney

AmericaSaidApologyWillPresident

I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.

Julia Roberts

LifeMomentThinkFameOpenCost

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Jayne Anne Phillips

CharacterWordsVoiceStory

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

Jose Marti

TorchBeingBeenWhoPairHe

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