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.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Sacrifice

• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• 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.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Modeling

• Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Experience
  • You
  • Mistake

• I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Play
  • Thought
  • Window

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Son
  • Hilarious
  • Only

• I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Understanding

• A liar should have a good memory.

  

  Quintilian
  • Good
  • Memory
  • Liar

• I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • People
  • Happy
  • Gold

• For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor’s mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already drowned by the noise the thong-whip had made, or the sounds of children crying out of hunger or the cold or sheer misery in that grey house of orphans in the far North, eight years ago.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Children
  • House
  • Words

• For me, personally, I'm a 5'5" leading man. I'm no Brad Pitt or anything.

  

  Jeremy Luke

• Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Play

• I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

  

  Agnes Obel
  • Music
  • Happy

• As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Trying

• More than 90% of cancers are curable at stage one - look for them, look for them, look for them.

  

  Yael Cohen

• 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.

  

  Arne Duncan