Tyrone Hayes Quotes

I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.

Tyrone Hayes

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• I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

  

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• I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.

  

  Dan Lipinski
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• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

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• I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

  

  Tavis Smiley
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• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
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• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
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• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
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• When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
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• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
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• I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

  

  Kate Clinton
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• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

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• I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.

  

  Dave McClure
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• You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'

  

  Karl Rove
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• Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.

  

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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• The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.

  

  Jon Scieszka
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• My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

  

  Twyla Tharp
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• I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.

  

  Tyrone Hayes
  • Reading
  • Math