John Sculley Quotes
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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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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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.
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As much as you don't like disciplining your kids, you have to sometimes. Kids want that structure, that leadership, that guidance. I think that's what I try to give my children.
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When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.
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My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.
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Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
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We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
