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The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations. -- Ashton Kutcher
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. -- James Truslow Adams
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. -- Henry Rollins
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. -- Edward Gibbon
Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations. -- Robert Reich
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. -- Jonathan Kozol
I have real good parents. I have two brothers, and we got good educations. My parents didn't have a whole lot of money, but they spent the money they had on private school for us, Catholic school. -- Ryan Coogler
When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations. -- Joe Klein
It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does. -- George Wald
It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We're already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their U.S. educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries. -- Sarah Lacy
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. -- Martin Lewis Perl
But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations. -- Patricia Richardson
I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it. -- Bob Beauprez
Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom's! And we have enough money to write checks to organizations that help kids get vaccinations, vitamins, and educations yet have plenty of free time to advise your daughter that one day she will regret piercing her lip. -- Jen Kirkman
The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, because there are actually quite a lot of us. But this disconnect means that journalists see me as an interesting story. The tricky part is making sure they understand that there are many, many talented writers who don't have 'fancy' educations. -- Julia Quinn
My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we'd come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage. -- Michael Douglas
I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me. -- Carlton Cuse
Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion -- Adam Bellow
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen. -- Lord Chesterfield
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. -- Edward Gibbon
He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. -- Jack London
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. -- Baron de Montesquieu
I will do everything that I can to make sure that you have good jobs, with rising incomes, that your kids have good educations from preschool through college. -- Hillary Clinton
When I talk to people who believe in this global warming crap... it's fake science. They may have educations and degrees that say they are scientists, but they're not. They're political hacks and leftists. -- Rush Limbaugh
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished. -- Fanny Burney

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