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I just probably tossed it right in the trash. – Carla Squitieri	Found on CNN 8 years ago
That was my Powerball. – Carla Squitieri	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am thrilled to see the wave of opposition build to where SeaWorld finally has done the right thing and ended their captive breeding program of orcas. – Jared Huffman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Fear and rejection are feelings that go along with that. – Stacy Kaiser	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The wedding industry is set up to intimidate brides and couples. It's set up to where they feel like they can't do it, i guess my whole thing was that I wanted to show that anybody on that day in that dress is the most beautiful person you've ever seen. – Isadora Martin-Dye	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There was one dress that she put on and she had that moment that I had when I put on my wedding dress, she wouldn't let her mom come in because she kind of wanted to do that reveal first look with her mom when she saw her in the dress for the first time. – Isadora Martin-Dye	Found on CNN 8 years ago
While there, she got hungry like babies do. – Margaret Ellen Bradford	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The more great writing a person reads, the more sensitive she will become to how words work. And millennials have to pay attention, multitasking often means that a person is not working with the requisite care and precision, two essential things for effective reading and writing. – Stephen Dobranski	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Their stylistic tics are nonsensical fluff: 'Like ... Like ... Like ...,' sentences punctuated with 'N Stuff,' mindless clichés such as 'Omigod!' and 'Awesome.' In their writing, they aren't much better. Let's be clear about every standardized test score and every survey of teachers and employers: the writing of students and younger workers is a mess. – Mark Bauerlein	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We learn it in elementary, middle school, and then after then, it's straight interpretation, if (the school system) stressed the importance of proper grammar even on social media, it would be better. – Jamear Jackson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Perhaps some millennials have thus become more attentive to such details as punctuation and grammar, whether they are hashtags or semicolons or sentence fragments. The details that millennials find most important, though, might differ from the rules that earlier writers emphasized. – Stephen Dobranski	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Barbershops are, like, a whole new adventure, they have black men around them giving them directions and encouraging them to do something positive. I think that this is essential, and it will create memories for them that will empower them. – Andrew Lovett	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You have CEOs going to the same barbershops as people who live in the projects. It creates this unique opportunity, so a father comes in, and he sees another father reading with his son. A kid comes in, he sits down, he sees another (kid) reading. Well, he's modeling positive behavior for this other kid. – Alvin Irby	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have black boys who are going to school, and they never see a black man in school who's encouraging them to read. – Alvin Irby	Found on CNN 8 years ago
One day I was getting a haircut at the barbershop across the street from my school, one of my first graders came inside and he plopped down on the couch. He was staring out the window, looking bored. As I watched this all unfold, I was thinking to myself, he should really be practicing his reading right now. – Alvin Irby	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Who wants their story first? – Andrew Lovett	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've already let my work know Tuesday I won't be there, we're going to Top Golf. – Nick Lemmond	Found on CNN 8 years ago
My friends respect the fact that I only get a birthday every four years. So, it's usually my friends who make a bigger deal about it than I do. – Nick Lemmond	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Let the celebration begin! 99 and a half won't do. I've got to make the 100. – Big Daisy	Found on CNN 8 years ago
So love wins in this play, not violence. – Katie Mitchell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We all dream huge nightmares, everyone has very, very strange nightmares where very extreme events take place. – Katie Mitchell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Figures in black balaclavas assist in the humiliation. With mistress-of-stunts Katie Mitchell directing, we have, from the start, ambient noise, honking klaxons, cage doors clanking, fizzing strip-lights -- no cliche is spared. – Daily Mail reviewer Quentin Letts	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The procedures for addressing students still involve sending students to the front office staff member, but as a result of the protest, there is a heightened awareness around students' perceptions of dress, self-expression, and individuality. – Daniel Head	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's been so good to know that something like this matters to people and that every voice counts in helping to find a fair approach. – Niv Miyasatok	Found on CNN 8 years ago

I just probably tossed it right in the trash.

– Carla Squitieri

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That was my Powerball.

– Carla Squitieri

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am thrilled to see the wave of opposition build to where SeaWorld finally has done the right thing and ended their captive breeding program of orcas.

– Jared Huffman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Fear and rejection are feelings that go along with that.

– Stacy Kaiser

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The wedding industry is set up to intimidate brides and couples. It's set up to where they feel like they can't do it, i guess my whole thing was that I wanted to show that anybody on that day in that dress is the most beautiful person you've ever seen.

– Isadora Martin-Dye

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There was one dress that she put on and she had that moment that I had when I put on my wedding dress, she wouldn't let her mom come in because she kind of wanted to do that reveal first look with her mom when she saw her in the dress for the first time.

– Isadora Martin-Dye

Found on CNN
8 years ago

While there, she got hungry like babies do.

– Margaret Ellen Bradford

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The more great writing a person reads, the more sensitive she will become to how words work. And millennials have to pay attention, multitasking often means that a person is not working with the requisite care and precision, two essential things for effective reading and writing.

– Stephen Dobranski

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Their stylistic tics are nonsensical fluff: 'Like ... Like ... Like ...,' sentences punctuated with 'N Stuff,' mindless clichés such as 'Omigod!' and 'Awesome.' In their writing, they aren't much better. Let's be clear about every standardized test score and every survey of teachers and employers: the writing of students and younger workers is a mess.

– Mark Bauerlein

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We learn it in elementary, middle school, and then after then, it's straight interpretation, if (the school system) stressed the importance of proper grammar even on social media, it would be better.

– Jamear Jackson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Perhaps some millennials have thus become more attentive to such details as punctuation and grammar, whether they are hashtags or semicolons or sentence fragments. The details that millennials find most important, though, might differ from the rules that earlier writers emphasized.

– Stephen Dobranski

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Barbershops are, like, a whole new adventure, they have black men around them giving them directions and encouraging them to do something positive. I think that this is essential, and it will create memories for them that will empower them.

– Andrew Lovett

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You have CEOs going to the same barbershops as people who live in the projects. It creates this unique opportunity, so a father comes in, and he sees another father reading with his son. A kid comes in, he sits down, he sees another (kid) reading. Well, he's modeling positive behavior for this other kid.

– Alvin Irby

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have black boys who are going to school, and they never see a black man in school who's encouraging them to read.

– Alvin Irby

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One day I was getting a haircut at the barbershop across the street from my school, one of my first graders came inside and he plopped down on the couch. He was staring out the window, looking bored. As I watched this all unfold, I was thinking to myself, he should really be practicing his reading right now.

– Alvin Irby

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Who wants their story first?

– Andrew Lovett

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I've already let my work know Tuesday I won't be there, we're going to Top Golf.

– Nick Lemmond

Found on CNN
8 years ago

My friends respect the fact that I only get a birthday every four years. So, it's usually my friends who make a bigger deal about it than I do.

– Nick Lemmond

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Let the celebration begin! 99 and a half won't do. I've got to make the 100.

– Big Daisy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

So love wins in this play, not violence.

– Katie Mitchell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We all dream huge nightmares, everyone has very, very strange nightmares where very extreme events take place.

– Katie Mitchell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Figures in black balaclavas assist in the humiliation. With mistress-of-stunts Katie Mitchell directing, we have, from the start, ambient noise, honking klaxons, cage doors clanking, fizzing strip-lights -- no cliche is spared.

– Daily Mail reviewer Quentin Letts

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The procedures for addressing students still involve sending students to the front office staff member, but as a result of the protest, there is a heightened awareness around students' perceptions of dress, self-expression, and individuality.

– Daniel Head

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's been so good to know that something like this matters to people and that every voice counts in helping to find a fair approach.

– Niv Miyasatok

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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