Randi Weingarten Quotes
White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Hear the other side.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
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After my first fashion week, there were so many brands approaching us, and we said 'No' 90 per cent of the time. We didn't care about making a lot of money - it seemed so short term. We've always wanted to create something bigger.
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Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
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White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
