Emanuel Cleaver Quotes
Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.
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I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
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If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
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Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.
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Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.
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Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.