Paul Bremer Quotes
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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
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The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.
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Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.
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I will either be famous or infamous.
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I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.
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It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.
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If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?
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I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.
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I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.
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I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality and moral choice-and that is precisely why we are under the obligation to recognise and respect the rights of animals.
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Sarah palin's latest makes her either a despicable liar or horribly uninformed.
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We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a book called Illuminated Poems - it was Allen's poems and songs and I illustrated them. Or, I illuminated them with paintings and drawings that bounced off of them. You want the picture to relate to the text without it slavishly regurgitating it or merely illustrating it, because that's redundant. You want to show another angle of what the text is saying.
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Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
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It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.
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I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.