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I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority. Tony Brown
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My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country. Raquel Welch
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I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson. Rodney Brooks
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When I first started the Project, I could not have expected so much to be accomplished in such a short time. None of my concerns about giving money to an academic institution came true. They've done high quality work with real-world relevance. Chuck D.
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We need to upgrade Wyoming's academic standards and reputation. The Hathaway scholarship has put us on a road to be the best and the first in education.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students' academic careers and, most certainly, barometers of their future employment prospects. Given the president's emphasis in the State of the Union on the importance of developing math and science skills in America's students in order to keep America competitive globally, we do not see how eliminating federal education technology funding advances his global competitiveness agenda or helps our students.
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Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment. Greg Graffin
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We've made great strides in raising academic achievement during the past seven years. I am especially proud that Washington led the nation last year in reading scores for African-American fourth graders. African-American eighth graders in Washington scored better in math than in all but three states. We are closing the achievement gap.
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That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.
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People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.
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Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.
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Companies recruiting for growth can't risk losing their best talent to competitors. They must also remain focused on aligning and engaging employees. This session provides an opportunity to learn how to implement systems that help engage and retain employees--from an expert in talent management.
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Anthony (Smith) played it the best he could. It just went in.
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A number of our governing bodies are bound and determined to be the best in the world. Witness the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team -- they want to be the best in the world.
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And that's the thing that a lot of people don't really get and a lot of you guys (sportswriters) don't understand. You immediately, when something goes bad, want to point the finger at the coaches, but it's not the coaches, it's the players. Right now we're not getting the job done. We're making mistakes and missing plays, things that we control. The coach has no control over what goes on on the field. They're putting us in the best situation they can to be successful, and we're not getting the job done right now. Brian Green
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A regular Palm customer can come in here a couple times a week and get different things. That's the goal. They are going to get the best steak, but they are also going to find the same quality in our veal dishes or whatever.
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A record is nothing if not shared. I'm proud of the record but I'm even more proud to be working with the best team in the world. Ellen MacArthur
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Last night we challenged him in front of the whole team because I think in the last few games he didn't give us the games he should have. He responded and that's what I'm excited about. Some guys can't take getting called out in front of the team, but the guys that can use it as a motivational factor come out with games like he had tonight. Lita Ford
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We'll stay at 68 TB for a year or two, ... But as shots get more complex ... it's hard to tell. Mike Thompson
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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.
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I have to respect what they say, but I think I'll be in the game before June. It depends on how I do when I stay here after the season starts. Octavio Dotel
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One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy. Elizabeth Kenny
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Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere. Ban Ki-moon
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I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much. Rick Riordan
environment time-and-space
Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him. John Dewey
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And here we have gone and put them in a place which is completely different from the rest of the world. So we're sort of challenging them to live in the environment they say they're creating.
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It's just not a normal environment out there.
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It seems like there's more, but Friends was always a high- pressure environment because it was successful from day one. So I'm kind of used to it. Matt LeBlanc
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A lot of teams have one star. It's the people underneath that make the difference. The high school environment is about supporting each other. It's not just about one person. They're all working really well together so far.
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They had a great home-ice environment. And we didn't want to give them the first goal, and we did too easy.
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This clearly, in our opinion, will lead to a much more serious competitive environment than the industry has been exposed to in probably the last five years.
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We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.
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I think sometimes we rely too much on Kenny alone. We play a much better game when we play a full game, relying on our shooting and contesting other teams shots.
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That's back when I had a full head of hair. Zydrunas Ilgauskas
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I wasn't surprised. I knew they were full of speed and had great athletes. Lonnie Johnson
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I wasn't sore today, so I'll give it a shot, ... I have a full range of motion. Chris Burke
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We need to put a full game together. Today, we weren't there in the first half and that hurt us.
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We need to provide a guarantee in this legislation that the funding will be there for the full modernization of our public schools. Jack Evans
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We just want to make sure that everything is right as people come back, ... You want them to have the full New Orleans experience.
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We have our hands full on Sunday. We just have to get our spirits back and we have to learn how to fight. We don't fight. With the three teams that have pressured us, we did not fight. We've got to learn to handle the pressure and we can't make mistakes.
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Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.
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We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves. Deon Grant
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None of these people are lazy, ... Why wouldn't you want to help somebody like that? All they needed was a jump-start.
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More than 80 percent of the housing was destroyed. It's an island; there was nowhere to go. They didn't know when help was going to come. Law enforcement was rendered ineffective. They didn't know when they'd see another meal.
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I wish he'd stick to the script more. But when you have that type of athlete, nine out of 10 times when he does things like that he's going to help you.
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She's been very positive. That will help her and help other people realize, hey this can happen.
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What impressed me was he looks like he's kind and rates well, and that should help him stretch out.
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We've done some things to help him, which have put Tye Hill on some islands, quite frankly.
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Today, for us, is a very sad day. They're here to kill them, we're here to help them.
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I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation. Bobby Knight
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When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. Dave Barry
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God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. Charles Stanley
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Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. Alan Autry
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So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself. Al Oerter
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. Al McGuire
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them. Aiden Wilson Tozer
leadership work reality
I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it. Chris Christie
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I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities. Mario Monti
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It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.
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It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives. Leigh Steinberg
quality diplomats compromise
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. John Keegan
quality directors actors
When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors. Puff Daddy
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The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. Lester Bangs
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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison. Paracelsus
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Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.
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Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.