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It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.


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MEL PINS I'm not retiring.
MEL TILLIS When I have lunch with those guys, they're paying for my lunch. I'm not paying for their lunch.
MEL KARMAZIN Sprint PCS' wireless network is one of the last keys filling one of the last holes in MCI's network.
MEL MARTEN Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
MEL FERRER If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.
MEL GIBSON In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.
MEL SMITH Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd ra...
MEL BROOKS We believe that in offering shares of the new Infinity Broadcasting, we will unlock the value of our...
MEL KARMAZIN There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of asse...
MEL KARMAZIN How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to bei...
MEL TORME I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of t...
MEL TORME I had a blast writing the Ranger in 'The Great Dinosaur Rush' for the Moonstone collection. ...
MEL ODOM many of the individuals we see are heavily committed to something we call 'fun.'
MEL LEVINE We're seeing an epidemic of people who are having a hard time making the transition to work — kids...
MEL LEVINE We teach the child about his own strengths and weaknesses, and we give words they need for the thing...
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