Serge Schmemann Quotes

My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. We talked about these things at the dinner table, at their schools, with their friends.

Serge Schmemann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
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  • Birth: April 12, 1945

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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

Angela Duckworth

LifeFocusAchievementThinkingCare

You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as a country, we're going to have to do it by standing together.

Amy Klobuchar

TogetherForwardYouHouseCountry

I'm not addicted to wrestling anymore. For a long time, I was.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

TimeLongLong TimeWrestling

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Ritchie Blackmore

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Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

Rivers Cuomo

LifeImaginationFakeMy LifeWrite

My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

Russ Feingold

LawNeedJokeElectionsGetRid

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

Michel Martelly

FeelWantOutForceLikePushing

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.

Mo Ibrahim

DemocracyViolencePlaceHarassment

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

Josh Ryan Evans

PeopleEvilLivingSome PeopleOut

There's good random, and there's bad random. There's good silly and there's bad silly, and you've gotta know the difference.

Conan O'Brien

GoodRandomSillyYouBadKnow

If you brush your teeth, you don't want to eat something right after because your mouth feels so fresh. So brushing your teeth actually prevents you from eating until later.

Cloris Leachman

EatingYouMouthWantTeethRight

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