Gary Locke Quotes

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

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• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.

  

  Lance Gross
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• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  

  Dale Archer
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• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
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• I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
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• In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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• We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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• Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
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• There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

  

  Jackie Stewart
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• I think that if I’m still here in ten thousand years, I’m going to be crazy as hell. Ten thousand years, pal! Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat. You really think you’re going to be anything recognizably human in a hundred centuries?

  

  Cory Doctorow
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• I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

  

  Clint Smith
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• A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.

  

  Charlie Puth
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• I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.

  

  Fred Kavli
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• The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

  

  Gary Locke
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