#handing

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#faith #government #handing #instead #our

It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#become #ends #flyers #friends #handing

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears. ↗

— Jane Levy

#automatic #been #brake #bursting #doing

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#boxes #coming #contracts #cracker #ever

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#drop #handing #hope #i #i can

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#become #believe #big #business #colleagues

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#behaviour #breakdown #case #classic #containing

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#between #children #difference #handing #over

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#academic #account #cell #cell phone #children

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#desperately #handing #i #me #out