Betsy DeVos Quotes
Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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The fans treated me royally.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
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We quickly erase hoaxes once exposed, excising the monstrous palimpsest, because as with any witch hunt or obvious fake, afterward we can't quite explain why we ever believed the outrageous thing in the first place.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
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I don't get a chance to be funny on camera as often as I would like.
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To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.
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Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
