Sargent Shriver Quotes
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
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Embrace your weirdness!
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
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It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.
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I think we need a Muslim 'Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette.' I think that's what would be the great equalizer, and that would change everything.
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The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.
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Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.
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Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.
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As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
