Ed Markey Quotes
Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
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The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Democrats hate success.
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
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If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady...
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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
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I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.
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You couldnt make headlines with raised eyebrows
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Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
