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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There was such a hodgepodge of emotion. We're dealing with Woody's death, and all our heroes are showing up. It was sadness mixed with joy.
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It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy.
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I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.
