Lincoln Chafee Quotes

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

Lincoln Chafee

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• Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Look

• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

• I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Mother

• Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Intelligence

• I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Political
  • Party
  • Politics

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.

  

  Rain
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Best

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

  

  Jack Black
  • Plan
  • Diet
  • Strict

• It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Different
  • You
  • Energy

• Liberty is the most important thing.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Important
  • Liberty

• Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • World
  • Heart
  • Hope

• Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Day
  • Beginning

• The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The American public, especially the people of the Gulf Coast region, deserve to know what happened in the early days of the storm. At every level of government - local, state and federal - the initial response was simply unacceptable, ... push for answers.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • American
  • Government

• American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • World
  • American
  • Education