Arne Duncan Quotes

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

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• Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Moment

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Universe
  • Painting
  • Patterns

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Country
  • Me
  • Chance

• I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Relationship

• There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Change
  • Look

• This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Easy

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Like
  • Feel

• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Man
  • Control

• I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Winning
  • Celebrity
  • Olympics

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Good
  • Job
  • Free

• My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Relationship
  • Body
  • Boss

• I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

  

  James Thurber
  • Women

• Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Water
  • Wind
  • Windmills

• In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon

• When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Children
  • Why