James S. Coleman Quotes
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
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When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
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I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.
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In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
