#stripping

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#arts #child #children #curriculum #drilling

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings. ↗

— David Niven

#get #his #laugh #life #man

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#failure #inessential #means #stripping

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#balances #believe #checks #consideration #constitution

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there. ↗

— Method Man

#documentary #going #got #i #pick

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ↗

— Barbara Johnson

#feel #gears #idle #like #motor

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

The Ten Worst Songs to Strip To: 1. That Midnight Oil song about aborigines ↗

— Diablo Cody

#stripping #humor

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#acting #aim #approximate #artifice #away

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#bit #comforting #comic #cynical #emotion