Paul Wellstone Quotes
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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People take things so seriously.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.
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In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
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If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
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I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
