Dan Webster Quotes
The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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It's, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that to support myself and for the first six months after I graduated. Then I started to get commercials here and there, and then I got a couple of roles in Australia and then a more regular role on a TV series.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
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You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.
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A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.
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Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
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Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
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The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.
