David T. Kearns Quotes
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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I'm obsessed with brows, so Revlon's ColorStay Eyebrow Liner is a must, and the Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Rendezvous is another obsession.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.
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What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
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I can’t pretend to have worked my way up through adversity. I need the money not for food like other people, but to prove that I’m worth something. Jaws freed me to discover that a successful movie didn’t make a damn bit of difference to my life.
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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
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I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.
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We always say that National songs have to have a heart, that we don't make cold songs.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
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Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
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Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
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You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.
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It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where they spend federal funds. The new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, has suggestions like computer science, health, foreign language and geography. So there's no guarantee the arts will now flourish. Arts advocates are ready to help states and school districts with their plans.
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Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
