"Once Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos was going to be his Education Secretary - a few months before I finished the manuscript - I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen. He was going to overturn as much of what Barack Obama did, and the attendant social progress, as he could."

-- Vanessa Grigoriadis

#Progress Quotes #Barack Quotes #Secretary Quotes

“A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.”
“American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.”
“I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'”

Source : "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.
“We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.”
“South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money.”

Source : "SC Republican Wants to Ban Money". littlegreenfootballs.com. February 18, 2010.
“Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.”
“Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.”

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