Betsy Hodges Quotes
There are some folks at the teacher's union who aren't big fans of mine, in part, because I have been open and want to make sure everybody is sitting at the table as we talk about education.
Quotes to Explore
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I love nature.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.
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Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.
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By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.
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There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
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There are some folks at the teacher's union who aren't big fans of mine, in part, because I have been open and want to make sure everybody is sitting at the table as we talk about education.
