Randi Weingarten Quotes
Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
Quotes to Explore
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.
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Working with Olivia Colman has probably been the highlight of my career so far.
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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I come from a middle-class family, but we are open-minded people.
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Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
