Betsy DeVos Quotes
Every child in America deserves to be in a safe environment that is free from discrimination.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.
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That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
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Systemic change rarely comes overnight.
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'Constitutional' is an unashamedly educational podcast from the 'Washington Post.' Sub-titled 'a podcast about the story of America,' it's presented by Lillian Cunningham, who engages scholars to explain the fascinating story of how a nation is designed from scratch.
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America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.
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Every child in America deserves to be in a safe environment that is free from discrimination.
