Ann Cotton Quotes

My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.

Ann Cotton

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FamilyEducationDaughterJourney

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Robert J. Shiller

SeeingMeetingDistanceOppression

The things you're closest to are often the things you know least about.

Matthew Desmond

YouKnowThingsAboutLeastOften

There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

Michael Gartner

ChangePoliceConstitutionPerson

I was voted three times Germany's national player of the year, and that is decided by the fans. That shows the fans are there for me and believe in me.

Mesut Ozil

MeBelieveYearThreeFansPlayer

All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything.

Stellan Skarsgard

YouHideWayInsideEverythingJust

I dream for a living.

Steven Spielberg

DreamLivingI Dream

There are few things that are more revealing about someone than the way that they talk about a piece of literature or a play. You very quickly come to have a much deeper understanding of someone than you would if you just mingled together in a pub saying, 'All right, how are you?'

Tom Sturridge

TogetherSayingUnderstandingSomeone

Being happy in general makes life so much easier.

Tom Daley

LifeHappyBeing HappyBeingEasier

I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.

Mike Lee

PowerPeopleControlStoryYouTell

I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.

Jason Kidd

WinThinkYouGamesBallConsistent

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.

Jaron Lanier

PathCultureChildhoodMeKnowNow

Whether lyrically or musically, it reaches in there and grabs your soul. That's the stuff I gravitate toward.

Dierks Bentley

SoulMusicallyYourStuffWhether

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