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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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
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I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
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I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.
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Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.
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The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.
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I've read the 'Mortal Instruments' series; I was obsessed with those.
