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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The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.
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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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Princess Peach is in many ways the quintessential stock-character version of the damsel in distress.
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The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?
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All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.
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If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.
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If you wanna burn us to the ground make sure that I’ll never come back around. You’re doing it right. If you wanna tear my heart in two make me never able want to think about you. You’re doing it right.
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I expect there will be more virtual schools.
