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Zev Yaroslavsky Quotes

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

Zev Yaroslavsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 21, 1948

Topics

Easy Done Washington Mean Forces

We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Best Performance Saying You Try Out

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

Michael Cunningham

Feel Way Need Over Years Seem

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.

Progress Face Excuses America You

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

Education Good School Grades Want

As a kid, I always had my nose buried in the side of a cereal box.

Kid Always Box Side Nose Cereal

The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.

Nature People Forest Powerful Rules

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

Toussaint Louverture

Live Myself People Retirement Wish

It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks.

Writing Expensive Make Checks Record

To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.

Faith Religion Step Opinions Write

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

Jump Desire Want Way More Never

Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.

Strength Integrity Courage Fly Jump

Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with a richness rivaled only by elite private schools and those in the most upscale suburbs.

Achievement Results Extraordinary Gap

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