How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of American students have learned to critique tactfully?
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Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.
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I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.
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I don't know if [the money title] means a lot to me or winning, ... I have more wins than anybody else, and I have won more majors than anybody else in the same year. It's a very good year.
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