Esperanza Spalding Quotes
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
Esperanza Spalding
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Tone can be as important as text.
Ed Koch
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
Vikas Swarup
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
Ed Gillespie
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
Naomi Wolf
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
Fabrice Grinda
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
Viktor Orban
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
Felix Hernandez
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I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.
Parker Posey
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'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'
Uri Geller
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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
Barbara Stanwyck
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All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
Antonio Gramsci
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I'm a huge salsa fan. I actually have a salsa on my album, 'Formula Vol. 2,' featuring Marc Anthony.
Anthony Santos
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