Arne Duncan Quotes
Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life. The question implied in the ambiguities of life derives to a new question, namely, that of the direction in which life moves. This is the question of history. Systematically speaking, history, characterized as it as by its direction
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People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.
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Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
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Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.
