#comp

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you. ↗

— Eric Liu

#also #america #complicated #identifies #identify

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#cartoons #competing #ever #gets #i

I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#am #because #bit #comparing #competitive

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#absolutely #change #completely #different #i

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#actor #because #career #completely #different

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

#breaks #competitor #competitors #drive #find

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #common #common interests #compete #define

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#child #compared #except #facts #know