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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality. Ian Mckellen
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My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'. Will Poulter
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning. Wendy Kopp
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay. Zubin Mehta
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When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125. Yani Tseng
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I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it. Colin Baker
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I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing. Chris Carter
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I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table! Emma Watson
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Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.' Twyla Tharp
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown? Yotam Ottolenghi
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It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.
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We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school. Thucydides
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There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. Timothy Noah
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I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. Thomas Friedman
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I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows. Idina Menzel
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. Theophile Gautier
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly. Imelda May
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting. Ice T
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'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.
chance
You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual. Gillian Armstrong
chance
If the sun comes up, I have a chance. Venus Williams
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If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair. Bill Gates
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A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs. Chino Moreno
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you. Yahya Jammeh
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish. Ian Mcewan
children
My children are grown now, they are more independent. Vanessa Paradis
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One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided. Chuck Palahniuk
children home missed
I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot. Billy Graham
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I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
children desired men
I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men. Ellen G. White
children love people time
I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own. Esther Rolle
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there. Patricia Polacco
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With the expectations of our community for small classroom sizes, we must prepare new classroom space before we qualify for new construction. Troy Thygerson
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Midyear adjustments are less about moving teachers to new classrooms and more about how within a building, what options there are for assigning kids in. As a last resort, we might get a situation where we actually move a student to a neighboring school.
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We involved the public throughout phase one, including making the decision on whether we had one middle school or two. At the individual schools, the teachers had input on where the classrooms were located and what they would look like.
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It is different seeing it on stage than reading it in the classroom or seeing one of the film versions.
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I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health. Marsha Blackburn
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We educate a well-prepared, diverse workforce. The students who learn in diverse classrooms know how to take that cross-cultural understanding into America's industries.
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We really see this as a way to liberate classrooms from the necessity of providing one-to-many communication.
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Ninety-nine to 138 students is not an insignificant number. You're looking at three or four classrooms in schools that are already pushing 100 percent capacity.
front
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
front
Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at. Gene Ween
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I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match! Zlatan Ibrahimovic
front immediate
The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me. William Shatner
front good themes
Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it. Emilia Fox
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All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct. David Stern
front global strike thunder warming
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
front joke life rarely unless
I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living. Christopher Guest
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In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest. Clint Eastwood
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice. G. Hannelius
gives government point remember
The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away
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The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
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I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve. Common
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I always use dry shampoo, even if my hair isn't oily. It gives me so much texture and that bedhead vibe. Bethany Mota
gives mortals people superior
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability. Daniel Kahneman
gives job people
When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it. Frank R. Wolf
gives hit opponent thinks tip
That way when the opponent thinks I'm going to hit it hard, I can tip the ball. That gives you another weapon.
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That was a great victory by (A&M). It gives us a chance. Bill Self
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things. Idris Elba
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Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.
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Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'
happened
I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.
happened kept telling
That was so unfortunate. It could have happened to any of us. I kept telling him, 'You'll be OK. We're right there with you. Kevin Garnett
happened sanctions
We have always wanted sanctions after what has happened in Cote d'Ivoire,
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One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground. Reid Scott
happened neither nor reform
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution. Rebecca MacKinnon
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The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda. Sepp Blatter
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If you don't understand viruses, phishing, and similar threats, you become more susceptible to them. If you don't know how social networks leak information that you thought was private, you're likely to reveal much more than you realize. Brian Kernighan
information life people
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different. Dolly Parton
information
All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.
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We have also negotiated with Royal Mail that, instead of the paper process by which they sign for receipt of mail, they will sign our drivers' pocket PCs, which means the information can go straight on our website.
information policies
It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers. Mark Zuckerberg
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Typically the rule with respect to publicizing information is that if it's information that a person could obtain by sitting in the courtroom, then release of that information through the media is allowed.
information
We have a lot of information to digest. Joe Torre
information
We've got some information, but we've got a long way to go. We still have a lot of unanswered questions.
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We're waiting to get more information from Canada, at which point we could be able to scale back, ... We just need that information. Jim Rogers
knowledge larger longer
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
knowledge
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. Bernard Beckett
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Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. Bertrand Russell
knowledge inference knows
Whatever we know without inference is mental.
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History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
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All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
knowledge
the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. Andrew Carnegie
knowledge soon walk
We have the knowledge and want to help. As soon as you walk in the door, we'll get to know you.
knowledge true
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Henry David Thoreau
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We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working. Emma Bunton
public putting
We are not putting anything out that is not public record.
public regular reporters
Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.
public rather view
If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.
public somebody
He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like. Pat Gillick
public service
Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation, Charles Ray
publicity surprised whether
He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.
public support
We've been very public in our support of this.
public
If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services. Robert Lopez
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Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated.
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I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.
received variety
We received assurances at a variety of levels.
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We received a lot of user requests for this.
received
When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'
received totally
I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later. Horton Foote
received
I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.
received support
He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.
received results
We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.
sure trying
I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present. Wole Soyinka
sure time
That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did! John Carey
sure
That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.
surely
We can surely try to be there for them. Tom Jackson
sure time
I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.
sure
We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.
sure
We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful. Steve Jobs
sure together
We just want to make sure we're all together and to have a little fun.
sure winning
Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.
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Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods. Patrick Stump
targets
I need to find new targets because this one is done. Fernando Alonso
teaching appreciate people
In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed. C. S. Lewis
teaching purpose adults
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning. Carl Rogers
teaching perfection alive
It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection. E. F. Schumacher
teaching youngster
Imagine, a 32-year-old youngster teaching an 80-year-old something. Do I want him to come to the Giants? Yes, I want him. I want him to be our manager.
teaching knowledge men
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
teaching athlete healthy
We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life. Dominique Moceanu
teaching school college
I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family. Dianna Agron
teaching editing miracle
Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it. David Shields
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After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. David Minge
team thinking too-much
I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest. Arsene Wenger
team player thinking
I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
team wrestling fighting
One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.
teamwork best-team
We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly. Bill Bradley
teamwork leader should
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
team wins
The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs, Roy Oswalt
team
The '98 team was probably the most disappointing. Craig Biggio
team
The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,
team veteran
That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.
themselves
Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed. Stephen Covey
themselves truth
Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse. Aaron Swartz
themselves ultimately whom
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
themselves training work
But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.
themselves tried turned
I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young. Robert Redford
themselves
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Friedrich Schiller
themselves unfair
It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.
themselves work
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are Aldous Huxley
themselves
These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season. Buck Showalter