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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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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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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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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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 do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
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The Germans always had difficulties with their identity. Either it was too much and too loud, or it was hidden and too subservient. The French always had a healthy self-confidence. When they spoke of a 'grande nation' it was not dangerous. De Gaulle could say on Martinique: 'Behind me is the ocean. In front of me is France'.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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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.
