Randi Weingarten Quotes
There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
Quotes to Explore
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
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I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.
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You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.
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We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.
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I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
