Betsy DeVos Quotes

If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Powerful
  • Start
  • Name

• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Acting
  • Rap
  • New York

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Blind

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Up
  • Color
  • Texas

• I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Hand

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Prayer
  • End
  • Ready

• Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Experience
  • Gold
  • Working

• Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Responsibility
  • Vote
  • Voting

• It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

  

  Barry Took
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Eye

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • May
  • High
  • Honor

• I'd had a relationship with a woman when I was 20, but nobody cared then. As it came out at the same time as my fame, I started to have panic attacks.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Time
  • Relationship

• I want to reach everyone, but I have a dedication to women. Being that I'm a woman myself, and with the things that I've gone through, I've dealt with a lot of women that are in the dark and blind about relationships who depend on men for their happiness, emotionally and financially.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dark

• Everyone in their car needs love.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Car
  • Needs
  • Need Love

• I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Life
  • Work
  • Comedy

• I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

  

  Retief Goosen
  • School
  • Serious
  • Sports

• If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • School
  • Decision