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The Welcome Jam alone was worth it because it was a way to really orientate that class of students... to their new community and their downtown.


Karen Witherow

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CORI DONAGHY It was our goal for 100 percent of students to get their first or second choice, and that happened -...
LAURIE COOPER That benefits businesses on (U.S.) 72 because they'll drive by and hopefully stop on their way to do...
HUGH BALL Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD They have to look at what individual students have done rather than at their class rank because ever...
SANDRA SMITH It's just a way to get out, welcome students back. It's also good for people in the community to get...
JAN MILLS This was a major sabotage by the political parties because they simply didn't trust something that w...
DANIEL LUND This year's prom was better than ever. There was a greater sense of community because of the storm. ...
COLIN MILLER We're really hoping that people take their experience back to their community and get twice as many ...
DEREK BELL The U.S. marshals ordered them to take their FEMA shirts off because that was just not welcome,
DAVE BENNETT He was alone in his wonderment,
amoung creatures incapable of wonder
--for them it was eno...
JOHN PAUL II Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK We believed that there was now a market to sell units downtown. They're not attracted to a tract hou...
HUGH FUTRELL Once we found out their needs weren't being met, we decided it was a way to meet the needs of the co...
ANDREA KOTTLER I hope some of the new guys come back and get in the community, start learning their way around Milw...
DESMOND MASON I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.
EMM GRYNER The money goes a long way for students that want to go to L.A. or New York. It's really expensive an...
BOB MARTIN Wayne, New Jersey, ... And shooting in it was very depressing. Because everyone has the same stuff, ...
JIM JARMUSCH When the project began, the idea was to create a new look for the football stadium. This was the stu...
MARGARET MYERS Teachers were excited to have their kids back in class and to welcome some new ones. The students se...
ASHLEY KELLEY If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
KYLE CHANDLER The transition was good compared to New York because the inner city schools were so jam-packed. I fe...
DEMETRIUS PORTER It was great to see that so many students made time in their busy schedules and came out to support ...
PRINCY THOTTATHIL It was really interesting to see how people view themselves and how they see themselves in the commu...
DONNA MEYERS We ask new employees to share with us their most memorable restaurant experience and why. They never...
PAT MCDONNELL Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
MARGARET MCMULLAN The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is import...
BOB PLETKA It was less than 15 students that were there. The revocation took place because they just didn't hav...
JACK MOYER Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I did, of course, do research about what the current state of affairs is in terms of the eating diso...
MARTI NOXON It's a tangible way of helping people in terms of health care and hands-on experience. It helps stud...
ASHLEY CAMPBELL One of our goals is to build a sense of community within the group of first- and second-year teacher...
JODY WILLIAMS This isn't a surprise, but you don't want to take it for granted because a lot of things can happen....
GEORGE CROOKS It was a way to get into the Hispanic community because of the culture being so different.
KAY PHILLIPS To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
NARGIS FAKHRI When I first came to New York and saw Italian families and their displays of affection, I was taken ...
FRANK MCCOURT I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their n...
RACHEL SKLAR It didn't go too well with Yale students. Yale students didn't open their minds to two candidates. I...
CORDELIA THORPE We had a great response. The students really went out of their way.
JOE NAPPI I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted t...
KATHERINE WEBB They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, re...
HASSAN ADAMS Alone: it was no way to live and it was no way to die.
ROB THURMAN It's been a circus, (but) we got so much stuff going on in the spring, I can understand it. Karen (H...
DANNY MITCHELL I think when you attack somebody because of their race, religion or sex, it's really a crime against...
BILL COHEN Most adults don't know what we do here - let alone kids. It really opens their eyes, and it teaches ...
CHERYL POWERS We believe it's going to create a whole new class of services and will change the way people use the...
DENNIS SPECHT Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Walking around nude in front of humans was not a good way to keep a low profile with the community. ...
RACHEL VINCENT Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA People took ownership of the shalom and wholeness of their community; and, if something was wrong, t...
JESSICA NICHOLAS For their safety and the safety of the community as a whole we transported the students to their sch...
FRED MURPHY This is a really exciting campaign for us, it is the largest of its kind in the country and it's a g...
AMY MONDLOCH You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.
ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the ca...
LINDA ANDREASSI GWS is a place where students can find a niche, and find community in such a large university. Stude...
MAUREEN MADDEN The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was the...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Here, I found people are highly committed to their work. It?s a positive environment. ... It?s a rea...
DENNIS ELA It will really be a valuable thing for the downtown ... a genuine community center.
BOB HARPER I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters...
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS They're designing a poster for our advertising push. I thought that was kind of neat that these kids...
FLORENCE PATERNO We hate that this caused any alarm to parents, students and the community. This was not an emergency...
HEATHER MAYO Making the Chase was really cool. Making it to New York was the proper way to end it.
RUSTY WALLACE They were active in the community because they were people-people. They got their strengths from oth...
BARBARA JUDD We knew it would be a big hit if it was not only the students, it was the community.
PAIGE BARGER It was both difficult and it was contentious. But that wasn't the point. When it all came down it wa...
ROBERT WRIGHT The purpose of the performance was to find a way to create a celebration that would bring students, ...
COLIN TRIBBY The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA But mostly, I was crying because I was suddenly very aware of the fact that it was me standing up in...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort o...
BECKY CHAMBERS It was a neighborhood of working-class people, many who owned their own businesses, ... Even if it d...
ELLA BELL Universities are reluctant to update their syllabus as per industry requirement, not because their s...
AMIT KALANTRI It felt like the jam started in New Mexico. Even if the jam was only three miles, it feels like fore...
SCOTT YATES Many overseas tourists discover New Zealand on their way to Australia and wish they had budgeted mor...
JANE KING Many overseas tourists discover New Zealand on their way to Australia and wish they had budgeted mor...
JANE KING Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all...
VICTORIA KAHLER All the Dover school board did was allow students to get a glimpse of a controversy that is really b...
RICHARD THOMPSON Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they ...
OLIVER TAMBO It was not hard to attract students because everyone knew about computers. But it was very hard to a...
SAM CONTE Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their c...
JIM MCKAY That was a base hit. It was one of those days where the ball bounced their way.
ROSE ANTONIO Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their chil...
PETER YORK To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race gene...
EARL WARREN What we saw (from students) downtown at the corner of M.A.C. and Albert was responsible.
KAREN CASEY It kept them from really concentrating on their duties, because it was very distracting what was goi...
HARRY TAYLOR She was a good dancer. She was a really friendly person. That's part of the emphasis at Rick's, havi...
ERIC LANGAN This year, it was difficult to get started. The change of their coach and coaching staff, it was a b...
MAUREEN BARNETT All of a sudden it went from being a place that was really skeptical about filming to a place that, ...
GREGG KAVET We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT They have stealthily come into the market and monopolized the better buildings downtown under their ...
JASON HUGHES It's not cool to have school spirit, but it's also because there's no way for that to happen. Studen...
DANIEL COHEN Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that...
RANDY NEWMAN Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all...
EUGENE DEBS It was to elicit fear. It was for someone to flex their muscles in a cowardly way.
DEREK CLARK As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER I really encourage supervisors to nominate their students. It's a great way to recognize the great w...
VALERIE KNOPP It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high...
AMY SEDARIS I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

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KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
KAREN BASS It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
KAREN BASS All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I...
KAREN ARMSTRONG Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creeda...
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