Margaret Spellings Quotes
We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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I already am a product.
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If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.
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A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth and throat and less in the head and stomach.
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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As a kid I used to always write these stories... some of them were really cute; some of them were kind of crazy.
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Freedom is a clear conscience.
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We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.
