Arne Duncan Quotes
To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.
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My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
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We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife, sister or lover happy is to give them something that they love.
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At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income.
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Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
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It was so amazing to fall crazily in love and get married and have kids.
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A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.
