Dennis Moore Quotes
Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?
Quotes to Explore
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.
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But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.
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I love making each record sound different.
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Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?
