Betsy DeVos Quotes

At my direction, the Department's Office for Civil Rights remains committed to investigating all claims of discrimination, bullying, and harassment against those who are most vulnerable in our schools.

Betsy DeVos

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• I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Face
  • Changing

• I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Fall
  • Hunting
  • Deer

• I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • People
  • Want
  • Fools

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Years

• Writing has never been that simple for me.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Simple

• I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Believe
  • Goal

• Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Process
  • Filmmaking
  • Editing

• What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Power
  • Planning

• As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up
  • Long
  • Mind

• There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Question

• I'm kind of a beach bum from Florida, and I have a very different style. I like tight-fitting, Euro-fitting clothes, colored pants.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Different
  • Style
  • Beach

• When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market.

  

  Marc Davis
  • Great
  • Money
  • Snow

• I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up

• I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Band
  • Gossip

• Writing 'Magneto' as part of a team took a little getting used to.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Writing
  • Team

• We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

  

  Allen West
  • God
  • Family
  • American

• I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Creepy

• Online bullying has to stop.

  

  LeAnn Rimes
  • Stop
  • Bullying

• The thing about having a very young audience in the theatre is that sometimes they laugh at the bullying scenes. It's really interesting, what that means. It still confuses me slightly, you know; someone's getting quite brutally bullied on stage and people are laughing. I think it's very hard being young.

  

  Jack Thorne
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Theatre

• Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors.

  

  Martin Kove
  • Different
  • Business
  • Movie

• Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, “Identity Thief,” and Rex Reed, who’s a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don’t know what the right “ism” for it is, but I think that there’s a level of that that’s happening that’s certainly not okay.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Thinking
  • Identity
  • Lasts

• At my direction, the Department's Office for Civil Rights remains committed to investigating all claims of discrimination, bullying, and harassment against those who are most vulnerable in our schools.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Bullying