Randi Weingarten Quotes
As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I'm from that generation where there aren't that many pictures of me as a baby.
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I have a repository of titles I like in my head, and I am always looking for a movie that I can put one on.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.
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As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
