Zephyr Teachout Quotes
Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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I don't believe that competitions are important.
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I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.
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Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ.
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I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.
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The transition to clean energy should not be viewed as a burden to be overcome but, rather, an extraordinary job creation opportunity for the United States.
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If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.
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Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.
