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 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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I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up.
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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.
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The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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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.
