Sharon Begley Quotes
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
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The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.
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You're gifted to do something.
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I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
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I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wingsAnd some are treasured for their markings –They cause the eyes to meltOr the body to shriek without pain.
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Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
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I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.
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I was very nervous at first because there's so much pressure on me and the expectations are so high.
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We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.
