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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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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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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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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But the blood always remained, for the key was enchanted.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit me that people do that sort of thing or I would be capable of it.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.
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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.
