Betsy DeVos Quotes
As a mom, I just can't imagine having a child who would feel discriminated against for any reason, and I would want my child in a safe environment.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!
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I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.
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I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
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We’re the US Senate here to help people, and if we’re not helping people, we should go the fuck home.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.
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As a mom, I just can't imagine having a child who would feel discriminated against for any reason, and I would want my child in a safe environment.
