Andreas Schleicher Quotes

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

Andreas Schleicher

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That is one of the things that has come out of the discovery of pulsars - more knowledge about the space between the stars.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There's a conservatism that has come into the gay community: 'We're just like you, just like everyone else.'

Andrew Haigh

CommunityTimeMenDoingYouGay

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.

Melonie Diaz

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There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

Matt Damon

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My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

Andy Rooney

TimeGameEnoughHelpFastMy Own

The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

Michael Badnarik

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Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

Steny Hoyer

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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

Robin Marantz Henig

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We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Lisa Guerrero

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A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

Chelsea Clinton

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I mean, I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.

Christopher Cross

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