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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
-
I am a very reclusive, private person.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
-
'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.
-
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
-
Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
-
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.
-
I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
-
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
-
When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
-
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
-
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
-
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.
-
Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
-
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.
-
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
-
TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
-
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
-
I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.
-
I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
-
The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.
-
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.
