Michael Gurian Quotes
If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.
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We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.
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Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.
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Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
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If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.
