Eric Liu Quotes

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Eric Liu

Recitation: by Male by Female

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TodayPressureChooseWhiteLiberty

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

Joan Kirner

EducationHappyBeingVeryMinister

In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.

Jesmyn Ward

FamilyCommunityPeopleHealthcare

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Anaxagoras

AppearancesUnseenGlimpse

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

SuccessStupidOilAlwaysPropaganda

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

Steve Wozniak

LifeDesignFindTryRealThings

To be selling out shows and these kids who don't speak English singing along every word? It's wild.

Tory Lanez

SingingSpeakSellingWildOutKids

I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.

Tom Hopkins

I AmAdviceMessed UpMoreNeverUp

Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.

Mary Kay Andrews

CuteMomentsMeetComeWriterMost

I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.

Michael Mullen

PeopleThinkMissionGravityProtect

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Moira Kelly

PoliticsThinkYouBloodTaste

A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

Javier Camara

ThinkDecisionsChooseDifficult

The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.

Jonathan Galassi

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