Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).

It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.

Christine Ebersole

How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

Leonardo da Vinci

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

We have listened to the market and developed the first-of-its-kind 'Quick Start' program to help the automotive supplier community quickly cut costs by enabling leaner processes. With these easily deployed, low-cost, no risk offerings, we expect the tier one community to quickly adopt our technology further building out our automotive ecosystem upstream to suppliers.

We recognize that broad market adoption requires technologies to be standardized and available to the entire value chain in terms of product development. The intention is indeed to move into standard bodies.

We believe the final decision was pretty clear. At a time when the state is developing community-based treatment and support programs for children ... a large adolescent psychiatric hospital doesn't represent the best way to meet the individual needs of adolescents in our region.

We can't afford to be complacent. If the industry doesn't embrace new technology, then we will be replaced. But, SCC is a technology that we are adopting enthusiastically.

Sendhil Mullainathan

If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

Peter Singer

Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book.

Paul Bloom

Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.

Patricia McBride

My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.

Marcus Samuelsson

I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.

Marcus Samuelsson

There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.

Marcus Samuelsson

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.

We became his adopted family not knowing he was manipulating us and lying to us that he'd been grooming Elizabeth for taking her away.

Janet Reno

We are never going to get a serious grip on gun violence in this country until we adopt comprehensive measures to keep guns away from those who should not have them,

Rick Atkinson

In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself that Saddam was fundamentally Adolf Hitler reborn. I think his feelings towards Saddam were in fact quite genuine and quite legitimately hostile. He was not play acting.

Robert Webb

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

Sara Ramirez

Adoption is a global issue these days - it's certainly current - and it's encouraging for a lot of couples whether they're straight or gay.

Sarah Shahi

I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.

The decision is to be adopted by the court of law in line with current legislation.

Travelers are on (the) leading edge of technology adoption. They adopt trends before the mainstream, are better educated and have more disposable income. They are picky people. Having control over making travel arrangements is very important, and the web plays well into that.

Jesse Ventura

when I said 'much ado about nothing,' I was putting myself in the place of these particular individuals who defy death and who are asked to go out in some instances and kill people.

Marcus Samuelsson

When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.

We need industry to be vocal about where we are missing the ball. There's ample opportunity to grow business with the government in helping it adopt best practices.

Peter Jensen

We know there's better recognition of ADHD, and we also know that when children are treated nowadays, they're more likely to be treated over a longer period of time, ... If you go back five, seven, eight years ago, it was very rare that an adolescent with ADHD was treated. And usually it'd just be a child in elementary school was treated, but nowadays prescriptions have probably risen because adolescents are getting treated, there's better recognition for girls and they tend to be treated more throughout the school year.

Hans Frank

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

Henry Charles Carey

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

We generally have anywhere from five to 15 pets adopted each weekend.

Ryan Holmes

No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded.

Octavia Spencer

I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.