"I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing."
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"I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.“
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"I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court."
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"This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher."
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"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
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"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now."
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"I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success."
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
-Richard Cobden
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"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
-Richard Cobden
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"I studied secondary education."
-Jim McKay
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
-Kent McCord
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"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."
-Alonzo Mourning
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
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