"Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that."

-- Erykah Badu

#Opportunity Quotes #America Quotes #House Quotes

“Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.”
“There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.”
“I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.”
“People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.”
“You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'”
“Social media is critical to our work. We partner with digital outreach to humanize AIDS & tell stories.”
“It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.”
“I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.300, Macmillan

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