Michael Gove Quotes
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.
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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
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In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.
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I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.
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We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.
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We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses.
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The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
