David T. Kearns Quotes

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

David T. Kearns

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• System
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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

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  Samuel Beckett
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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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
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• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  

  Ralph Nader
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• I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

  

  Dane Cook
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  • Psychology
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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.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Important
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• My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Church
  • Sometimes
  • Christmas

• Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Bridge
  • Ice

• 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.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Just
  • Obsession
  • Stain

• Nothing in my songs is disrespective.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Songs
  • Nothing

• To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Oppression

• In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • She
  • France
  • Lady

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Different
  • War
  • America

• Raffi: Well, um, Taylor said only girls wear nail polish and so I, so I said but I'm a boy and I'm wearing nail polish, and so you're wrong!Clarice: Raffi, I'm proud of you! That was a very smart thing to say!Raffi: And then I kicked him.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Proud
  • Boy
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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.

  

  Lorraine Gary
  • People
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• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
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  • Sense

• Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

  

  Lorna Luft
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• When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.

  

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  • Remember
  • Band

• That life had been one without excitement, with no adventure. It had been too safe. All the elements that made it up were right there before his eyes, and nothing new could ever be expected. It was like, he had once thought, a little plastic boat that would sail on forever, without incident, until it finally sank, which would be a secret relief to all.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Life
  • Up
  • Eyes

• A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • May
  • Nature
  • Education

• These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • English
  • Moon

• Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

  

  David T. Kearns
  • Education
  • System
  • Monopoly