Arne Duncan Quotes

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

Arne Duncan

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• 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

  

  Hannah Murray
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• In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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  • Son

• I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

  Iain Sinclair
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• I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
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• Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
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  • Oregon

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
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• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

  

  Sadie Frost
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• I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

  

  Sally Mann
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• Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
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• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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  • Hell

• My father and my mother separated when I was two.

  

  Carla Gugino
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  • Two

• That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

  

  Tanya Tucker
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• I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

  

  Sam Walton
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• If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

  

  William Duncan Silkworth
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• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  

  Wendy Craig
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  • Classroom

• We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

  

  Carl Jung
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• If you have a good thing going behind the scenes, you'll have a good thing going on-screen.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
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• As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
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• Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

  

  Arne Duncan
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  • Father