Milton Avery Quotes
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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My education was very tough.
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Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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There's no racism with the Internet.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.
