Eric Liu Quotes

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

Eric Liu

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TimeSomeoneCitizenshipYouDone

I don't remember my life before I had children.

John Malkovich

LifeChildrenMy LifeRememberHad

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

Jeffrey Archer

ArtLovedMoreYearsThan

There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.

Amiri Baraka

FriendWillPraiseAnalysisEven

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

Steven Pinker

ChangePowerAcceptancePeopleWorld

I don't like going to the mall.

Smokepurpp

GoingMallLike

Infrastructures of power always inhabit the surface of the earth somehow, or the skies above the earth. They're material things, always, and even though the metaphors we use to describe them are often immaterial - for example, we might describe the Internet as the Cloud or cyberspace - those metaphors are wildly misleading.

Trevor Paglen

PowerInternetCloudEarthSkies

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.

Rosamund Pike

AmazingThinkAdmireSheBluntLike

I write all of my material. It's all me.

Ron White

MeWriteMaterialI Write

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Mikhail Gorbachev

FightThinkPoliticalDoneTerrorism

The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.

Mikheil Saakashvili

YouCreateMoreInsecureProne

I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.

Lucille Ball

LoveMeSeenAwayEverybodyHe

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

LoveMenNowHatredPleasureFar

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