Tom Mooney quote: "We still have three-to-one disparity in per-pupil spending between the richest and the poorest districts, but all kids are expected to pass the same tests and meet the same standards by the third grade. This is nuts."

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then i...
PAUL MOONEY

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for ...
PAUL MOONEY

Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Dava Carvey, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell - they're all the best.
KYLE MOONEY

You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.
PAUL MOONEY

We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real ...
PAUL MOONEY

I'm as American as apple pie.
PAUL MOONEY

People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'
PAUL MOONEY

Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty an...
PAUL MOONEY

We lost everything. Appliances, stove, refrigerator, furniture, everything.
ROBERT MOONEY

I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'G...
PAUL MOONEY

You don't have time in Indonesia to wait for tide gauge data.
WALTER MOONEY

Both these races could well be close. Primaries are hard to peg.
CHRIS MOONEY

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins ...
JAMES MOONEY

We couldn't contain Dean. A couple of times we played very good defense on him, and he made really h...
CHRIS MOONEY

Socks made of 100 percent cotton were the worst in blister formation.
ROBERT MOONEY

We found that 100 percent cotton socks were usually the worst, especially when a person started to s...
ROBERT MOONEY

I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's ...
PAUL MOONEY

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talke...
PAUL MOONEY

There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probabl...
PAUL MOONEY

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a const...
PAUL MOONEY

We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to pe...
CHRIS MOONEY

Seismometers are just like microphones. They're buried in the ground and, when the earth shakes, the...
WALTER MOONEY

I'm trying to be relatively calm but also trying to coach my team as hard as I can.
CHRIS MOONEY

It's a challenge. It's a lovely course, very varied. And I love the T-shirt. I always treasure the s...
DANIELLE MOONEY

Cycling has been neglected by local governments and as a result, the general populous has not been a...
LOREN MOONEY

We were not good, and unprepared, I guess, and emotionally not ready. They were so much more aggress...
CHRIS MOONEY

We had opportunities and grasped them.
PHIL MOONEY

This is a mother-daughter thing for us. We always do it together. I can't imagine not doing it.
DANIELLE MOONEY

That's something Bush obviously has to deal with. He has not dealt with the McCain question.
CHRIS MOONEY

We intend no one to lose their jobs.
BILL MOONEY

Our whole purpose here is to create a dialogue. Health care is a mess, a real mess. And nobody seems...
BILL MOONEY

We would like the revenue, to sum it up.
BILL MOONEY

Our priorities are national security. People linked to terrorism are number one. We are looking at t...
JAMES MOONEY

I have some others that have called to inquire. I'm anticipating that they would be sending in their...
IAN MOONEY

San Francisco is a classic bike town, and it is beloved by everybody. In our online reader poll, mor...
LOREN MOONEY

We thought we could mimic some aspects of these special living spaces in synthetic scaffolds that de...
DAVID MOONEY

She can certainly beat me. But she has never run as fast as my best time in a half marathon.
DANIELLE MOONEY

Let's face it, we were behind before we came out. You had your skilled workers in there, 20-25 years...
DAN MOONEY

We transplant the cells on a scaffold that keeps them alive, then directs them to leave in a control...
DAVID MOONEY

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen ...
PAUL MOONEY

I have known Michael Richards for something like 20 years. We're friends.
PAUL MOONEY

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.
PAUL MOONEY

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of c...
PAUL MOONEY

My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just ...
PAUL MOONEY

I hit her with a body shot. I think that stunned her.
ELIZABETH MOONEY

The first time you get in there to spar, you realize this person is punching you back. It's not just...
ELIZABETH MOONEY

I'm used to being on the road and being an opponent. I'm looking forward to having the support of pe...
ELIZABETH MOONEY

When I'm boxing I'm strictly in the mentality of a boxer. When I'm a nurse I'm strictly in the menta...
ELIZABETH MOONEY

This has been a missing link in our product line-up.
DENNY MOONEY

This vehicle has been a missing link in our product lineup and we believe there is strong appetite f...
DENNY MOONEY

When you drive from Melbourne to Broken Hill, as I did recently, you find you want to do it in a big...
DENNY MOONEY

Checks remain a major payment choice for consumers and are important to merchants' payments strategi...
BRIAN MOONEY

Delivery of cells on scaffolds that promoted both activation and migration led to extensive repopula...
DAVID MOONEY

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you'r...
PAUL MOONEY

Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.
PAUL MOONEY

He was excited about it. He really liked the idea [of me coaching], I think. I don't know if he thou...
CHRIS MOONEY

I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That'...
PAUL MOONEY

We gotta fight. We gotta fight for what we think is right.
DAN MOONEY

If I was the federal government I would step in and say listen, I want those guys back in there, tha...
DAN MOONEY

It's been rough. I'm pretty sure it's not just me. It's rough on everybody. We gotta do what we gott...
DAN MOONEY

We ranked Phoenix as Phoenix proper but it is an indication that the metro area is shining and is a ...
LOREN MOONEY

Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she w...
PAUL MOONEY

This is a wonderful time for your hair. Because of all those hormones, your hair will be thicker and...
JAMES MOONEY

Our branding strategy will become clear in the next three months.
JAMES MOONEY

Mitchell basketball lost several key players to graduation. It's going to be a transitional year to ...
IAN MOONEY

I think he can bring a lot to the table, as far as experience is concerned, to help the younger kids...
IAN MOONEY

We've had a winning program through the years. That will be a better magnet for coaches wanting to c...
IAN MOONEY

The kids love him to death. I brought him in as cross country coach, many of the kids came to me tel...
IAN MOONEY

She was a coach that just wanted to get into anything she could get into. She loves working with kid...
IAN MOONEY

They were successful and worked well together. They have knowledge with both sports and have shown g...
IAN MOONEY

You're never going to see a high-scoring offensive show when we come together. I think some of it's ...
MARK MOONEY

If you give great players a challenge, those players will do great things. I challenged my players, ...
MARK MOONEY

I was just so lucky to have her. When we played Randolph, we needed scoring and she stepped up and s...
MARK MOONEY

In the Southwest, (Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler and Tempe included) we were very impressed overall with t...
LOREN MOONEY

This could be our last game (before districts). We were really nervous. We had to step up. The littl...
RYAN MOONEY

The composure we showed and ball control was fantastic, every chance we created we seemed to grasp.
PHIL MOONEY

We're dead lucky to come here because it's so modern? It was like - wow!
ROBYN MOONEY

To reach a child's mind, first reach a child's heart.
EDWARD MOONEY, JR.

Both destiny and free will exist simultaneously. You are destined to be given some opportunities but...
TOM TOM

During times of hardship people find happiness in simplest pleasures
TOM TOM

Am I good enough?
Trust.
TOM

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this ...
TOM REISS

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they ca...
TOM LANDRY

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail aro...
TOM HANKS

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
TOM CRUISE

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
TOM CRUISE

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomo...
TOM CRUISE

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. ...
TOM CRUISE

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.
TOM CRUISE

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybod...
TOM CRUISE

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that include...
TOM CRUISE

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right t...
TOM CRUISE

I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and ta...
TOM CRUISE

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
TOM CRUISE

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture,...
TOM CRUISE

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
TOM CRUISE

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I...
TOM CRUISE

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell yo...
TOM CRUISE

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you sur...
TOM CRUISE

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&...
TOM CRUISE

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o...
TOM CRUISE

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn'...
TOM CRUISE

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.
TOM CRUISE

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a littl...
TOM CRUISE

I go without sleep, I just go hard.
TOM CRUISE

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to...
TOM CRUISE

Football is unconditional love.
TOM BRADY

My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.
TOM WATSON

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
TOM HIDDLESTON

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, c...
TOM REISS

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
KIANA TOM

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
TOM STOPPARD

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper...
TOM STOPPARD

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th...
TOM STOPPARD

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
TOM STOPPARD

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
TOM STOPPARD

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ...
TOM STOPPARD

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones...
TOM STOPPARD

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
TOM STOPPARD

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
TOM STOPPARD

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. An...
TOM STOPPARD

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
TOM STOPPARD

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with t...
TOM STOPPARD

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea...
TOM STOPPARD

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
TOM STOPPARD

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
TOM CONTI

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quart...
TOM CRUISE

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibil...
TOM BRADY

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all...
TOM BRADY

Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always ...
TOM BRADY

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
TOM BRADY

I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
TOM BRADY

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they me...
TOM BRADY

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
TOM BRADY

My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe t...
TOM BRADY

There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo...
TOM BRADY

I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, y...
TOM BRADY

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch...
TOM BRADY

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help th...
TOM BRADY

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
TOM BRADY

When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.
TOM BRADY

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'...
TOM BRADY

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geome...
TOM DELONGE

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.
TOM BRADY

What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and t...
TOM COTTON

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlis...
TOM LANTOS

I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie ser...
TOM HOLLAND

Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowi...
TOM CRUISE

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool...
TOM HIDDLESTON

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever...
TOM WAITS

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, eac...
TOM RIDGE

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness a...
TOM HARKIN

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...
TOM HANKS

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES

We are set to make very bad history.
TOM WILSON

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
TOM WILSON

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?...
TOM WILSON

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
TOM WILSON

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
TOM WILSON

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
TOM WILSON

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l...
TOM WILSON

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
TOM WILSON

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
TOM WILSON

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON

If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
TOM WILSON

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
TOM WILSON

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
TOM WILSON

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
TOM WILSON

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
TOM WOLFE

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
TOM STOPPARD

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
TOM WOLFE

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease...
TOM ALLEN

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards,...
TOM HANKS

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. B...
TOM STOPPARD

Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the s...
TOM FOLSOM

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
TOM LANDRY

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can lite...
TOM STOPPARD

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned w...
TOM WATSON

Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i...
TOM WATSON

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick invo...
TOM PETTY

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term w...
TOM STOPPARD

Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
TOM LEHRER

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
TOM HANKS

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
TOM WAITS

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
TOM STOPPARD

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has f...
TOM COTTON

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I...
TOM STOPPARD

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
TOM STOPPARD

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a n...
TOM STOPPARD

The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bi...
TOM ODELL

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who fee...
TOM BRADY

There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance E...
TOM ROBBINS

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD

We still have three-to-one disparity in per-pupil spending between the richest and the poorest districts, but all kids are expected to pass the same tests and meet the same standards by the third grade. This is nuts.

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We still have three-to-one disparity in per-pupil spending between the richest and the poorest districts, but all kids are expected to pass the same tests and meet the same standards by the third grade. This is nuts.

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