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Randi Weingarten Quotes

As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.

Randi Weingarten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 18, 1957

Topics

Education Children Teacher Pain Feel

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

John Hartford

Learning Weather Start Thinking You

I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

Andre Holland

Acting Everything August NYU Which

Soft lips are big for me. Not a whole lot of lip gloss. You don't want your first good kiss to taste like strawberry shortcake!

Matt Lanter

Good Kiss Me Lips You Want

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

Jean M. Auel

Woman People Hair Eye Story Skin

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Tom Ridge

Leadership Power People Team You

Everyone needs an objective, and everyone needs a goal, and it was frustrating just kind of being at a standstill.

Robert Whittaker

Goal Kind Everyone Being Just Needs

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.

Derek Jeter

You Down Want Never Over Out

Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.

Cicely Tyson

See Gone Movie Should Malcolm X Ali

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Phil Crosby

Great Obvious Discoveries

The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.

Sundar Pichai

Think Trying Moral Want Compass

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

Peter Fenn

Alone Tyranny Congress More First

I gained 60 pounds during my pregnancy, but I didn't say, 'I want to lost 10 pounds every month!' Instead, I said, 'I will lose two to three pounds.' I eventually saw progress, and that made me work harder.

Tia Mowry

Work Progress Me Lose Lost Three