William Raspberry Quotes
Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
Quotes to Explore
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.
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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
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I just like being on stage and making people happy.
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I would like to be more active outside of Israel.
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I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
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At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.
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We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.
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I didn't grow up watching movies and thinking, 'Oh, I wanna be in those!'
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I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.
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If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.
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I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
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A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things.
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Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
