So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.
I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight months in the hospital and a rehab clinic in Seattle.
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.
For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: 'How can we provide value to our customers?' At the end of the day, that is what matters.
If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.
You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.
