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When I told the World Bank directors that I wanted them to finance a project to build a model reception hall for citizens precisely in order to fight endemic daily corruption, they did not understand me.
We were scared, but still, school was where we wanted to be.
We were less interested in whether students can simply reproduce what they have learned in school, but we wanted to test whether they can extrapolate from what they know and apply their knowledge in novel situations.
With PISA, we wanted to measure how they actually deliver equity, in terms of ensuring that people from different social backgrounds have equal chances.
This is a lot of data, and because we wanted to find out "who rules the world," we decided to focus on transnational corporations, or "TNCs," for short.
And Aurora kept playing the game, kept finding the little target and getting the orange juice that she wanted to get, that she craved for.
It's because my mother was denied an education, and she constantly reminded me and my siblings that she never wanted us to live the life she was living.
I wanted to become a teacher.
So I wanted to become a teacher.
I promised him that I would be the best girl, I will come back, anything they wanted after that, I will do it for them.
I wanted to do something.
And the reason they wanted the school for girls is because when a girl is raped when she's walking to school, the mother is blamed for that.
They said, "We wanted to put our girls in a safe place."
And I told them, I wanted them to show me a sign of commitment.
Sutherland wanted to create a system where ideas didn't just percolate down but could percolate up from the bottom and be adjusted in real time.
If you wanted to get into the right ballpark, you'd have to imagine every grain of sand on every beach, under all the oceans and lakes, and then shrink them all so they fit in here.
He and I wanted to demonstrate through the use of graphics like these to help someone talk about this intricate science.
And in the morning, her mom taught us how to try to make tortillas and wanted to give me a Bible, and she took me aside and she said to me in her broken English, "Your music has helped my daughter so much.
I once asked an opening band of mine if they wanted to go out into the crowd and pass the hat to get some extra money, something that I did a lot.
And I got a lot of criticism online, after my Kickstarter went big, for continuing my crazy crowdsourcing practices, specifically for asking musicians who are fans if they wanted to join us on stage for a few songs in exchange for love and tickets and beer, and this was a doctored image that went up of me on a website.
And then he got so excited, he turned on his flashlight because he wanted to see better, and the giant didn't run away, so he risked turning on the white lights on the submersible, bringing a creature of legend from the misty history into high-resolution video.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a man.
I wanted a registered retirement savings plan that would keep me in candy long enough to make old age sweet.
When I was a kid, I wanted to shave.
When I was eight, I wanted to be a marine biologist.
When I was 11, I wanted to be left alone.
When I was 12, I wanted to die.
When I was 13, I wanted to kill a kid.
See, they asked me what I wanted to be, then told me what not to be.
The Puritans came here for religious reasons, or so they said, but they also came here because they wanted to make a lot of money.
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