Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
Wendy Kopp
ChangeEffortEndingInequality
There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.
Clive Owen
MeLuckEndingUpWhereElement
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
Rafael Correa
GoodPowerEndingBadPower Corrupts
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
Bob Woodward
SadGovernmentEndingPlayMorality
I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
Ralph Bakshi
VictoryEndingDeepFinalRingsCut
If any person examines by the microscope that part towards the extremity of the spider's body from whence its thread proceeds, he will observe the spot to be, as it were, surrounded by five several protuberances or risings, each ending in a point and altogether forming a kind of enclosure.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
EndingBodyPersonKindWillSpider
Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending.
Om Malik
LifeBusinessEndingEveryoneLike
If all purchases are spontaneous and simply driven by what is seen and loved, there is a high risk of ending up with 10 cocktail dresses and no outfits for work.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
WorkEndingLovedRiskDressesHigh
For us, driving is not what we are looking for, but being in the driver's seat of our only destiny. That means ending guardianship in Saudi Arabia, which means recognizing women as full citizens.
Manal al-Sharif
WomenLookingEndingDestinyDriving
For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.
Philip Roth
BeginningI AmWindEndingYearUp
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
J. K. Rowling
EndingYouWithoutUpThingsShare
I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out.
Peter Jackson
EndingRememberBackThreeOldOut
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Igor Stravinsky
MusicEndingMoreNeverReasonThan
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Thurgood Marshall
ChallengesEndingDiscriminationJury
Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
Gary Johnson
FreeEndingPresidentImagine
'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that's what makes it tragic. It's about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same.
Noah Hawley
HappyEndingLaughViolenceYou
We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.
Aaron Swartz
UglyLegacyEndingFightingAmerica
The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.
Ryan Reynolds
RomanticEndingProblemDoingYou
When 'Mean Girls' came out, I was 15. So I saw that movie and was like, 'That is so funny.' But it still has that fluffy, happy ending, and that doesn't happen in high school.
Barrett Wilbert Weed
FunnySchoolHappyEndingMeanHigh
I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.
Morrissey
LifeBestStartEndingWayOut
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
Leon Krier
AgeCultureEndingDinosaurs
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.
Junot Diaz
DeathPeopleEndingPlaceNewOld
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
Gustav Mahler
LoveEndingPlaceDramaAdmireMost
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
Henry Louis Gates
SuccessEndingOpportunitiesBlack
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