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Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

Creating a global platform for collaboration in education research and innovation has been the PISA initiative's aspiration from its conception in the late 1990s.

Jose Angel Gurria

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: mexican
Birth: May 8, 1950

Topics

Education Innovation Collaboration

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

Joe Perry

Time Listening Go Done Let Go

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

John Ashcroft

People Look FBI Able How Agent

From 1987 to 1992, I was on the road for 40 weeks a year playing comedy clubs, and that was during the 'comedy boom.'

Andy Kindler

Road Comedy Year Playing Boom Weeks

The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our home, our home planet. And it's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. It's like looking into Heaven. It's paradise.

Michael J. Massimino

Home Looking Heaven Paradise Earth

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Alveda King

Racism Slavery Financial Way Others

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

Simon Schama

Peace Death Me Golf Quiet Want

The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

Simon Van Booy

Courage Beautiful Style Moment Joy

I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.

Trevor Paglen

Good Eyes Art People Think Better

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

Christopher Buckley

Plan Write Master Along Just

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

Brendan Gleeson

Good Integrity People Writing Small

One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.

Ara Parseghian

Football Grow Environment Never Up

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

Anthony Fauci

Child Remember Vaccines Polio Well