Nicholas Lemann Quotes

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

Nicholas Lemann

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• We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Small
  • Problems
  • Down

• There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Confidence
  • Worry
  • Loss

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Worry
  • Information
  • Rules

• I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Myself
  • Better Person

• It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Long
  • True
  • Know

• My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Comedy
  • Example
  • Follow

• Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Like
  • Generation
  • Forest

• The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Society
  • Travel
  • Destination

• I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Politician
  • Chief
  • Minister

• I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they'd put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? 'It's me! Look at me!' I loved the attention.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Mother
  • Attention
  • Story

• I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Relationship
  • Company
  • Playing

• When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Worry
  • Fool

• I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself - to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties. And I know that sounds like an unrealistic goal right now, but I will wager that by the time the elections of November 2008 come around, it will be the number one issue in both parties.

  

  Al Gore
  • Time
  • Different
  • November

• In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Missing

• Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Achievement

• My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Simple
  • Style

• It's love when someone can touch you without using their hands.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Hands

• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Party
  • Wish
  • Ideas

• When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Important
  • Kids

• You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

  

  Nicholas Lemann
  • Success
  • Education
  • Support