Major Owens Quotes

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

Major Owens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 28, 1936 - October 21, 2013

Topics

WorkTeacherPeopleWaitEnough

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

John Irving

LifeYouChooseThingsNightmares

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

Angus Deaton

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People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

John Stossel

InnovationPeopleWorldActingOwn

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

John Phillips

TechnologyNot PerfectYouPerfect

Poverty should be one of the top concerns for any elected leader. It has a negative effect on almost everything we as society entrust our government to do, but it seems that those in the Republican Party find it is more politically viable to fight a war on the people in poverty than it is to fight a war to end poverty in this country.

Ron Crumpton

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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Russell Baker

EducationBestInformationPerson

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Russell Baker

CarEfficiencyDownSayNeedMost

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

Michael W. Smith

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What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

Michelle Kwan

LoveMusicMyselfMeIceSkating

I love television, and my love for it has made me curious about writing it. It feels like television's moving toward something more novelistic, and that's what I started wanting to do. But I can't say that I'm dying to get notes from a studio. The artistic control that you get as a playwright is worth its weight in gold.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

LoveCuriousMeMovingControlGold

My dad's a businessman, and I grew up looking up to him, how he dressed to go to work and, whenever I went to his office, how he spoke to people.

Syd

WorkPeopleLookingDressedGoHim

The result is an empty thing. The result is I'm happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play.

Pep Guardiola

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