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 artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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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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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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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 mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.
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With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear,It is not night if Thou be near;Oh, may no earth-born cloud ariseTo hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes.
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I've read the 'Mortal Instruments' series; I was obsessed with those.
