Margaret Spellings Quotes

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Margaret Spellings

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• I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Red
  • Down

• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Worth
  • Lot

• I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Successful
  • Run
  • Content

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Child

• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Questions

• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Different
  • Country
  • Miami

• Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Experience
  • Out
  • Harvard

• I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Right

• I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Stage
  • Act
  • Sing

• But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Wall
  • Very
  • Head

• Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

  

  Donald Knuth

• I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Teacher
  • Down
  • Scared

• I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

  

  Clyde Edgerton
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Strong

• And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate her own part - however tangential - in amplifying violence and violent imagery in American politics, she must be dismissed from politics. She must be repudiated by the members of her own party. And if they fail to do so, each one of them must be judged to have silently defended this tactic that today proved so awfully foretelling. And they must in turn be dismissed by the responsible members of their own party.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • She
  • American
  • Today

• I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Fantasy

• I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

  

  Margaret Spellings
  • She
  • Kids
  • Knowledge