Bill Vaughan Quotes
I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.
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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.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
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People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
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If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.
