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Gordon Gee Quotes

People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: February 2, 1944

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Community People Me Crazy Look Say

I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

Change Mother Change The World People

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

Poetry World Way Effect Views Then

As far as self-confidence goes, so much of social media is about approval, getting likes, comparing our lives to others' - meanwhile, confidence is an inside job: it's about how you feel about yourself regardless of what anyone else does or thinks. It's a knowing that you're human, you're flawed, and you're awesome in your own way.

Confidence Job Social Media Yourself

To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

Great Job Government Bond Care

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

Idiot You Look Person Shells Way

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

Play See I See Playing Before Acts

I never really listened to any particular trombone players.

Trombone Shorty

Never Players Trombone Any Really

My family is very close. I can't say that about many people I meet in Hollywood.

Family People Say Meet Hollywood

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

Good Lucky Influences Really Had

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

Joy Effort Easy Things Pursuit Zest

I did so many acting jobs for nothing. I was in a play that opened on Christmas Eve above a police precinct on 54th Street. Three people showed up. One of them was an agent. It was my first agent.

Bobby Cannavale

Police People Acting Play Street Up

I still wear minis and cardigans, but I think I'll steer away from shoulder pads.

Think Shoulder Wear Away Still Pads

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