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Major Owens

"We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom."

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"We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom."

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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."

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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."

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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."

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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."

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"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."

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Major Owens
"Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do."

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Major Owens
"The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired."

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Major Owens
"People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'"

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Major Owens
"Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities."

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Major Owens
"Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated."

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Major Owens
"It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power."

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Major Owens
"You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power."

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Major Owens
"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years."

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Major Owens
"It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two."

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Major Owens
"There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking."

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