Amandla Stenberg Quotes
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.
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I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.
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Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.
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I've read the 'Mortal Instruments' series; I was obsessed with those.
