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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

#depends #deserves #entry #exists #institution

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#bruce #bruce lee #cool #different #eyes

Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#audience #believable #could #earn #energy

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be! ↗

— Blake Lively

#friends #girl #had #high #high school

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty. ↗

— Titus Livius

#being #nothing #parsimony #poverty #than

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. ↗

— John Locke

#every man #himself #his #man #nobody

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#come #curiosity #else #getting #involves

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#identity #need #our #past #sense

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

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#country #during #empty #family #few