Ed Markey Quotes
The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success.
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I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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I haven't got a clue about how much I weigh. I do not own any scales. And I have noticed it creates an anger in people who are not skinny. People like to blame their insecurities on other people.
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So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.
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The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
