John Hurt Quotes
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
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I've stayed away from doing 'urban film' because I just don't relate to the characters. I'm not going to take a role because I happen to have the same skin color.
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
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Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
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I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
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The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.
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If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.
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I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.
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Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.
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'The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.'
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.
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There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.
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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.
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I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
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From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
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Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.
