Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
Positive rights are the right to shelter the right to education the right to health care the right to a living wage. These things are - these are I would call them more properly political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education the opportunities that I've had so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
I would like to learn or remember how to live.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
If I were again beginning my studies I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely and save Anne Frank.
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
I can think of some things that would be fun but I'm living my dreams.
I had dreams but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.
I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.
If there were dreams to sell what would you buy?
I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams and that's what this organization does.
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.
I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me who came from nowhere.
It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.
I would love to spend all my time writing to you I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind all that weighs on my heart all that gives air to my soul phantoms of art dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
If you were to ask my agent they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400 ' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.
If our dreams were more regular more connected more stable they would also have more practical importance for us.
Well Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.