Jenna Bush Quotes
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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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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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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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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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.
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My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.
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Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.
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You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
