While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transpl...
GENE WEINGARTEN When you are interviewing someone, don't just write down what he says. Ask yourself: Does this g...
GENE WEINGARTEN The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.
GENE WEINGARTEN Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of the...
GENE WEINGARTEN the aptly named Uncle Dick.
GENE WEINGARTEN The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confu...
GENE WEINGARTEN (My Baby Does The) Hanky Panky.
GENE WEINGARTEN Yes, there can be. If I also pitched for the Yankees.
GENE WEINGARTEN I disagree with those who suggest that we permanently close down the U.S. mail on the grounds that i...
GENE WEINGARTEN Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy wi...
RANDI WEINGARTEN For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a str...
RANDI WEINGARTEN America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull hi...
RANDI WEINGARTEN We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be ...
RANDI WEINGARTEN There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come wit...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novi...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public educati...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and ...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have ...
RANDI WEINGARTEN You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
RANDI WEINGARTEN The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, mag...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to a...
RANDI WEINGARTEN My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My m...
RANDI WEINGARTEN There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students ...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in w...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based inst...
RANDI WEINGARTEN When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model t...
RANDI WEINGARTEN As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know t...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companio...
RANDI WEINGARTEN ‎"The less random stuff you hear about, the more room in your ears for music, that's what I always...
LYNN WEINGARTEN Finally! You're here!"
Uh....Do I know you?"
Well, no....But you're here, all the same...
LYNN WEINGARTEN I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal e...
RANDI WEINGARTEN It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It mea...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. C...
RANDI WEINGARTEN As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I ...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's re...
RANDI WEINGARTEN I remember the first day of school my first year in the classroom. My stomach churned with a mixture...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes t...
RANDI WEINGARTEN A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children rea...
RANDI WEINGARTEN I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the...
RANDI WEINGARTEN For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's ...
RANDI WEINGARTEN I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I...
RANDI WEINGARTEN trivial, personal and entirely benign activities and attempted to distort them into criminal acts.
REID WEINGARTEN We primarily look at the horoscopes of countries, stock markets, sectors and stocks. We're top-down ...
HENRY WEINGARTEN Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferri...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Those who knew Sandy well knew just how hard she worked and how much she personally sacrificed so ot...
RANDI WEINGARTEN If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working...
RANDI WEINGARTEN I understand that prosecutors need to encourage snitches to snitch, but these sentences simply canno...
REID WEINGARTEN I understand that prosecutors need to encourage snitches to snitch, but these sentences simply canno...
REID WEINGARTEN As we embark on something as ambitious as the Common Core, educators must be able to teach to the st...
RANDI WEINGARTEN I am particularly pleased that we have significantly closed the pay gap between our hardworking educ...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to en...
RANDI WEINGARTEN A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathw...
RANDI WEINGARTEN The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not ...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunat...
RANDI WEINGARTEN I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical prof...
RANDI WEINGARTEN When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an ...
RANDI WEINGARTEN When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Som...
RANDI WEINGARTEN You want the kids who want to be there,
RANDI WEINGARTEN It was a good way to start.
HENRY WEINGARTEN It's a tool that works whether you believe it or not. The only people who don't treat it with respec...
HENRY WEINGARTEN This is a very critical month. There'll be a whole zeitgeist shift. We're talking a lot about tradit...
HENRY WEINGARTEN We've given him lots of good market advice. In terms of cash allocation and special stock picks, he'...
HENRY WEINGARTEN They move very quickly, they are extremely smart and they can write checks. And they will do transac...
MARC WEINGARTEN Maybe New Journalism needs a disclaimer. It's a very touchy subject and all journalists are trying t...
MARC WEINGARTEN Eric Holder was one of the most honorable, most effective public servants in memory. He had only the...
REID WEINGARTEN I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but ...
GENE WILDER I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.
GENE SIMMONS Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. ...
GENE SIMMONS The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
GENE HACKMAN There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of wh...
GENE ROBINSON After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
GENE SISKEL I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look...
GENE SIMMONS I want to do everything. I want to be the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan Do, I want to climb mo...
GENE SIMMONS The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would b...
GENE SISKEL I hear from broadcasters pretty often. Their ad revenue is down.
GENE GREEN When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God...
GENE TIERNEY Time is the fire in which we burn.
GENE RODDENBERRY I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemploy...
GENE GREEN I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Ent...
GENE RODDENBERRY I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an ...
GENE SIMMONS I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
GENE SIMMONS I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still ...
GENE RODDENBERRY Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
GENE TIERNEY Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in th...
GENE BROWN I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it...
GENE WEEN Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on yo...
GENE FOWLER People don't change. Only their costumes do.
GENE MOORSE News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock o...
GENE FOWLER I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved...
GENE FOWLER We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
GENE RODDENBERRY Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to uns...
GENE FOWLER A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on...
GENE RODDENBERRY The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
GENE BROWN The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 yea...
GENE RODDENBERRY Never defend yourself of words from a fool unless you are willing to become his/her equal.
GENE CRAWFORD I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happeni...
GENE RODDENBERRY Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.
GENE BROWN If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between me...
GENE RODDENBERRY Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
GENE BROWN Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
GENE FOWLER The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget whe...
GENE FOWLER The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.
GENE BROWN Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.
GENE HILL Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his m...
GENE FOWLER We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Human...
GENE RODDENBERRY The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that...
GENE WILDER Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We...
GENE SIMMONS There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy considera...
GENE KELLY The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lack...
GENE GREEN Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
GENE WOLFE The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them...
GENE TUNNEY Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st...
GENE WILDER The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek...
GENE RODDENBERRY Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
GENE FOWLER Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Ele...
GENE GREEN The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express someth...
GENE SIMMONS My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mik...
GENE TUNNEY Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impress...
GENE TUNNEY A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
GENE TUNNEY A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.
GENE TUNNEY Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood an...
GENE TUNNEY Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
GENE TUNNEY A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat ple...
GENE TUNNEY Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
GENE TUNNEY Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. I...
GENE TUNNEY Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
GENE TUNNEY I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.
GENE TUNNEY One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
GENE TUNNEY As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, mo...
GENE TUNNEY The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach pro...
GENE TUNNEY If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there ...
GENE TUNNEY Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
GENE TUNNEY He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
GENE FOWLER To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
GENE TUNNEY Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in th...
GENE MAUCH The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about ...
GENE HACKMAN I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.
GENE GREEN Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.
GENE RODDENBERRY My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
GENE TIERNEY It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened y...
GENE SIMMONS The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called...
GENE ROBINSON Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are incli...
GENE SAKS My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I thin...
GENE WILDER I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in ...
GENE WILDER The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That&#...
GENE SIMMONS No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're cle...
GENE RODDENBERRY I remember myself as an asthmatic child, having great difficulties at 7, 8 and 9 years old, falling ...
GENE RODDENBERRY When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the ma...
GENE KELLY What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but t...
GENE WILDER I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.
GENE VINCENT You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever h...
GENE MAUCH I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
GENE HACKMAN Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a ...
GENE TIERNEY In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches,...
GENE TUNNEY I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'...
GENE WILDER If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody...
GENE SIMMONS Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well ...
GENE SIMMONS It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I&#...
GENE HACKMAN But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to...
GENE ROBINSON What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
GENE FOWLER The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, dif...
GENE PITNEY Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types of weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce...
GENE GREEN More than 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does nationally is preventive care - including cervi...
GENE GREEN Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
GENE TUNNEY John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
GENE SISKEL The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them hap...
GENE SIMMONS Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
GENE TIERNEY Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.
GENE WEEN Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
GENE FOWLER Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to...
GENE WOLFE I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the direct...
GENE WILDER That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipu...
GENE SISKEL It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
GENE RODDENBERRY Shell and Exxon support export, but refiners like Valero could end up paying more for the crude oil.
GENE GREEN I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He ...
GENE FOWLER Do not waste your life waiting for wings. Trust that you can already fly.
AUDREY GENE Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three...
GENE KELLY ...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He se...
GENE EDWARDS David was caught in a very uncomfortable position; however, he seemed to grasp a deep understanding ...
GENE EDWARDS I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
GENE TIERNEY When we got back to my room, Gilda gave the dog a bowl of water and set some newspaper down in the b...
GENE WILDER If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why:...
GENE SIMMONS While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by...
GENE SPAFFORD If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.
GENE SPAFFORD Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on ...
GENE FOWLER News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock o...
GENE FOWLER Back in the Saddle Again
GENE AUTRY Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,
GENE AUTRY things that give you standing in the community.
GENE AUTRY I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Pe...
GENE WILDER You Are My Sunshine.
GENE AUTRY We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius...
GENE ANTHONY It's tough, it's an interesting little play -- part comedy, part serious. Basically, it's a story ab...
GENE ANTHONY We bought a real beauty parlor, with dryers and functioning water, and the whole bit. All the other ...
GENE ANTHONY We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for thre...
GENE ANTHONY I wonder if my mom just got tired of voting for North College Hill.
GENE AMMIRANTE All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because thos...
GENE AMMIRANTE I thought Andrew did a great job (defensively). When we face 1,000-point scorers like Eric Anthony, ...
GENE AMMIRANTE