John L. Lewis Quotes
But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.
