Betsy DeVos Quotes

I will not be deterred from my mission of helping kids in this country.

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• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • May
  • Winning

• My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Nature

• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Live
  • Die
  • More

• When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hate
  • Name
  • Annoying

• As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Kids
  • Desire

• When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Me
  • Looks

• I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • America
  • Indian

• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Blow
  • Studio

• I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Rest
  • Started
  • Eleven

• It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Impossible

• Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Failure
  • Adversity
  • Heartache

• I have my career and my family, and that's it.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Family
  • Career

• I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Better

• One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Kids

• I pretty much like all music except for country. I'm not a big fan of country.

  

  Ashley Benson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Pretty

• The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Revolution
  • Enlightenment

• Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Value

• One of my favorite poses was when working with Steven Meisel. It was one of my first photo shoots with him, and we were trying to get the cover of Italian 'Vogue.' Then, I literally took my Balenciaga hat, pulled it down, and gave a rolling-eye, 'ugh' face, crossed legs on the floor. And lo and behold, that was the cover of Italian 'Vogue.'

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Trying
  • Italian

• I will not be deterred from my mission of helping kids in this country.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Country
  • Kids