"I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores, the academic scores, of any school anywhere in this country [the USA], and you wouldn't be able to look at the score and determine what the racial makeup or the socioeconomic makeup of that school is simply because of the academic achievement levels."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Michelle Rhee

#Country Quotes #School Quotes #Makeup Quotes

“Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.”
“Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.”
“Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.”
“Love is like skydiving without a parachute.”

Source : Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.94, Dell
“The best of times is now.”
“I like to play snooker, golf as well.”

Source : "Who do you like best, José, Avram or Big Phil?" by Oscar Witt, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.
“I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.”
“But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.97, Thomas Nelson Inc

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