Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes
We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I love my sleep.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I was tested against the best.
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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 find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
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It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
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The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
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If we can manage to break free, to open the system and embrace all choices for education, we will be the first to give politicians awards to hang on their office walls.
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We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.
