#recent

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#behind #colleges #community #created #displaced

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate. ↗

— Lee Haney

#being #blood #blood pressure #children #cholesterol

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze. ↗

— Davey Havok

#heard #i #patrick #recently #used

The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#forgotten #know #recently #son #until

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#adage #away #been #beginning #challenging

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party. ↗

— Joan Crawford

#had #heard #home #i #interesting

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #african #beyond #central #consequences

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#clouded #compelling #decade #despite #even

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently. ↗

— Andy Dick

#believed #god #i #life #recently