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Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.


Ted Deutch

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DANNY DUNIGAN The district has not received any formal or informal response to that last proposal.
MARGARET DININNO We are a district that's growing by leaps and bounds. Not that our administration is growing a lot, ...
JOE DONZELLI When I say this is the hardest job in the district I'm not exaggerating.
JOY TORGERSON Not only does he bring that new blood, new way of looking at it, (but) not once have (district offic...
JOHN CAMPBELL The taxpayers of the entire district have subsidized everything we've done for years. That is someth...
MIKE WILSON Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
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RUBEN HINOJOSA We're playing pretty well right now. We put together two good weeks. We won two district games and f...
DAVE MANZO But as a district, we?re not too small and we?re not too big to try this, we?re just about right.
JOHN ARMATO A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear i...
LORETTA YOUNG We want to make sure we are doing this the right way, as it has been done for many, many years in th...
DAN HOLLAR I have been fighting long and hard for an adequate sewer system in my district.
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ROBERT TWILLEY Our entire district staff has worked hard and tirelessly with students to assure that each child mee...
DON ROBERTS Put it this way. What they did to us is what we've been doing to teams in our district.
ANTHONY MIZIKO I thought Barbra Streisand had walked on stage, ... When they wouldn't stop clapping and when they s...
JULIE CHEN Norway felt this is a district that has been neglected by the state.
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BOB TYLER The resident district is claiming that student as a resident. The nonresident district is not receiv...
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BRIAN CONLEY It's a big win. We have as much right to this (district) as anyone.
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FRANK SADEGHI I am pleased it's over, pleased they reached an amicable agreement and the district can move forward...
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TED DEKKER My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ...
TED DEKKER If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i...
TED DEKKER It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da...
TED DEKKER Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What...
TED DEKKER Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
TED DANSON Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunit...
TED DANSON We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick...
TED DANSON We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evol...
TED DANSON If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take anot...
TED DANSON When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
TED DANSON 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a...
TED DANSON Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbli...
TED DANSON I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming beca...
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