Eugene V. Debs Quotes
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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I've never been on a date.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
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I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
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Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
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I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
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The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
