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You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.
Eric Liu
You
Citizen
Live
Way
Those
Papers
Citizenship
Like
Without
Isolate
Persecute
American
Just
Want
Defend
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
Eric Liu
Reality
Though
Tempted
Something
Entry
Merit
Institution
Like
Reduce
Concrete
Score
Exists
May
Depends
Want
Mean
Meaning
Measurable
Who
Sat
Deserves
You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.
Eric Liu
Freedom
You
Mistake
Opportunity
Down
Clarity
Followers
About
Something
Purpose
He
Part
Feel
Days
Like
Ticking
Makes
His
Than
Just
Cannot
Story
Bush
Themselves
Larger
Believes
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
Eric Liu
World
Made
Situation
Saved
Too
Boomers
Given
Rational
Like
Comfort
Were
Accordingly
Behaved
Taught
China
Little
Many
Wholly
Enjoyment
Early
Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.
Eric Liu
People
Better
Young
Guide
Way
Boomers
Purpose
Onstage
Better Way
Like
Call
Greater
Effectiveness
Than
American
Behave
Young People
Them
Meaning
Next
Act
Lives
Grown-Ups
Need
If a woman is bed-heady and it doesn't look put on, it's pretty sexy. But when a woman is wearing a really smart dress with great heels and her hair is pulled back, that's terribly sexy too - like an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing.
Eric Mabius
Great
Woman
Smart
Hair
Too
Back
Kind
Sexy
Wearing
Dress
Pretty
Put
Like
Look
Terribly
Audrey
Audrey Hepburn
Heels
Really
Hepburn
Her
Thing
Pulled
I think that when you've only lived 17 years, you don't have, you haven't had a full canon of experiences, so every moment that you have here feels like the last moment in the world, because you've only had a handful of whatever those moments are.
Eric Mabius
You
World
Whatever
Every
Think
Those
Only
Had
Feels
Like
Because
Years
Handful
Experiences
Canon
Full
Moment
Moments
Lived
Here
Last
There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.
Eric Maskin
Good
Value
Air
Markets
Some
Some Things
Clean
Clean Air
Deliver
Like
Public
Public Good
Things
Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.
Eric Maskin
Teacher
Extremely
Kids
Something
Facing
Thrown
Students
Faculty
Like
Also
Course
MIT
Wolves
Just
Being
Notable
Rookie
Bright
I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.
Eric Maskin
Work
You
Projects
Indefinitely
Gears
Variety
Stuck
Simultaneously
Like
Another
Without
Get
Move
Them
Grinding
Working
Your
Things
Number
Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.
Eric Maskin
You
Kick
Kind
Solving
Gives
Puzzle
Like
Devising
Lot
Same
Mechanism
I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.
Eric Maskin
Time
Me
Big
Diamond
Brother
My Time
Like
Most
Learned
Big Brother
MIT
Department
Working
Acted
Teaching
Who
Peter
I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven't met, I suppose I'd most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem.
Eric Maskin
Power
Economics
Met
Few
Think
Meet
Validity
Colleagues
Laureate
Suppose
Like
Most
Because
His
Legendary
Persuade
Theorem
Among
Nearly
I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with 'Will & Grace.' I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day.
Eric McCormack
Work
Day
Character
Every Day
Grace
Will
Every
Crew
Back
Something
Having
Like
Know
Always
Camaraderie
Go
Enjoyed
Playing
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
Eric McCormack
Life
Time
Family
Gay
Change
Everyday Life
Everyday
Mental
Mental Illness
Part
Like
Stigma
Still
Modern
Maybe
Frontier
Modern Family
Full
Show
Illness
Now
Thing
Last
I love everybody at TNT, and they were totally behind 'Trust Me.' I totally loved that show. I feel like it should have had more life.
Eric McCormack
Life
Love
Me
Trust
Everybody
Totally
More
Had
Feel
Like
Were
Trust Me
Behind
Loved
Should
Show
I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own.
Eric McCormack
Love
Learning
Language
Before
Own
My Own
Like
Ideas
Know
Making
Sound
Them
We're definitely hoping 'Travelers' attracts more than just solely the sci-fi audience, too. There are so many elements here. I think this will be a show that women like, because there's a lot of unlikely romance in it between people who were in love 300 years from now, but they're in different bodies.
Eric McCormack
Love
Women
People
Will
Think
Too
Unlikely
Solely
Definitely
Hoping
More
Between
Like
Attracts
Sci-Fi
Because
Audience
Were
Years
Lot
Than
Just
Romance
Different
Bodies
Show
Who
Many
Travelers
Elements
Now
Here
I feel like 'Travelers' is something I can legitimately say, 'You're going to love this.' I think then people will accept me as a different thing. And if they don't, it's fun trying.
Eric McCormack
Love
Me
You
People
Will
Think
Say
Something
Feel
Like
Accept
Trying
Going
Different
To Love
Then
Fun
Different Thing
Travelers
Thing
For at least a decade, Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, and stuck on social media. While that may not be entirely fair, they are notoriously liberal, overwhelmingly supporting left-leaning candidates and favoring policies like nationalized healthcare and same-sex 'marriage.'
Eric Metaxas
Marriage
Social Media
Entitled
Liberal
Entirely
Stuck
Lazy
Supporting
Fair
Like
Policies
Healthcare
Least
Been
Decade
May
Candidates
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
While
Social
Media
Millennials
Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.
Eric Metaxas
Free
Too
Enterprise
Religious
Free Enterprise
Restricting
Like
American
Precisely
Impulses
Regulations
Many
If I have another concussion and I don't feel like I can play anymore, then I won't.
Eric Reid
Feel
Like
Another
Anymore
Then
Play
I do like playing strong safety.
Eric Reid
Strong
Safety
Like
Playing
I'd like to think I improve every day. That's the goal. I try to.
Eric Reid
Day
Every Day
Try
Every
Think
Like
Goal
Improve
You'd like to think we're past certain things, the way we treat people. I thought we were at a time where you love your neighbor as yourself. But as I've studied history - it hasn't repeated itself necessarily, but it's dressed a little different and is acting the same.
Eric Reid
Love
Time
History
You
Yourself
People
Treat
Thought
Past
Think
Way
Neighbor
Dressed
Studied
Like
Were
Repeated
Itself
Same
Where
Different
Little
Certain
Acting
Your
Certain Things
Things
Necessarily
Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.
Eric Ries
Time
Good
Food
Character
Innovations
Seems
Something
Entrepreneurs
Idea
Like
Most
Always
Pitch
Going
Microsoft
Disruptive
Good Idea
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