Betsy DeVos Quotes
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
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The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.
