Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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The devil made me do it.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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I guess a lot of people don't like talking.
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I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.
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I was pretty strict in high school about who I would listen to. Musicians like Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell... who were, in my opinion, great writers. The music mattered, but it held hands with the lyrics, and the personality was, overall, unsullied.
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I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.'
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
