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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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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Here's what I love about social media: You get to peer into people's lives that you normally wouldn't be able to.
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I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.
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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.
