Eli Broad Quotes
The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.
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As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
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That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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My mother is a walking miracle.
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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
