Randi Weingarten Quotes
Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.
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We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.
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Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
