Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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My parents were hippies.
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My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
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I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs and highly-produced videos, it would be a tough thing to make that economically sustainable.
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In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.
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I recently did a play, Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout - I sat at a table and didn't have any costume changes. Following one character's arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset.
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I don't do anything with my brows.
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You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.
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His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.
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There are always two or three or four sides to every story.
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The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, that's what I want to do. If it's a challenge and a massive risk and I'm going out on a limb ... those are the ones I want. And they are few and far between. I don't work very much because I'm very specific about what I want to do.
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Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.
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When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.
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The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
