Arne Duncan Quotes
We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute.
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Shortly after college, I was working in New York City at 'Rolling Stone' magazine.
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People say that marijuana is going to hurt my career. On the contrary, my fight career is getting in the way of my marijuana smoking.
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We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.
