Betsy DeVos Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
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I'm pro Union.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
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I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.
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My dad persevered and always took the high road and was accountable, and I respect and honor him for that.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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I expect there will be more virtual schools.
