"I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple."

-- Van Morrison

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“Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.”
“When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.”
“Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.”
“The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.”
“I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.”

Source : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
“You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it”
“Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.”
“Our truth is the intersection of independent lies”

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