Throughout high school, I was made fun of a lot. I was a lot smaller than the other kids, and I have a big gap in my teeth. I had pretty bad acne. So I struggled with that.
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
I can’t talk about the education of black children if I ignored two of my nieces who were a couple of grade levels behind. I believe that charity begins at home, and I take seriously the role of a godfather to fill the gap when the parents aren’t doing their job.
It’s not like I’m some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
I’m fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.
There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.
In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.
There is a profound gap between meeting a person and knowing a person, and that holds true for the difference between visiting and residing.
We don’t need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
There’s a gender gap throughout television and it’s very pronounced in morning TV since these shows are mostly meant for women.
When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they’ve learnt from it, it’s sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.
I just knew that there was a gap in the market for easy, comfortable garments that are neither luxury nor pret, but somewhere in between.
Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It’s not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership. Only when the listener(s) own the tellers’ story and make it theirs, will they virally market it.
Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.
At the center of President Obama’s strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It’s supposed be filled by a ‘Sunni ground force,’ but after more than a year of effort, it’s still not there. Unless this gap is filled, Obama’s plan won’t work.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
I’m really glad that I kept the gap. There are a lot of iconic women from past and present who have one.
For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can’t be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap.
You want to close the income inequality gap in part? Give us better educated kids out of high school. Give us kids that can challenge and succeed in the challenge with technology. You give us those kinds of kids, and watch the needle move.
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.
If populism means reducing the gap between the people and the elite, giving sovereignty – the fullness of sovereignty – back to the people, and making the job of representation really adhere to the protection of the interests represented, we embrace the title of populists.
There’s a lot of information that has been in peoples’ heads and hasn’t gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there’s just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.
There’s a belief… in the country that we can cure unemployment by creating opportunity. The skills gap proves that opportunity along is not enough to get people employed.
Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation’s racial wealth gap.
And we’re in the middle of a ‘perfect storm.’ These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.
If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.
Instead of waking up and worrying about your thigh gap, wake up and worry about what you’re going to achieve today. What can you do, and how can you give back?
The gap between first-class and international is mostly on the mental aspect.
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.
I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!
President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.
Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there’s no other way.
Every woman needs to know when she’s being discriminated against and what the reasons are why she isn’t getting equal pay so we can close that pay gap.
What the voters want to know is who is going to get out there, fight for them, and deal with the income gap that exists in the nation today.
When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.
There is this big yawning gap in the middle of British politics, the Conservative and Labour parties have gone to the edges. In this divided, polarised world, the pragmatic centre ground is a bit unloved.
I’m not really interested in clothes. Mainly, I like wearing clothes that don’t make me stand out – I tend to go for Marks & Spencer and Gap – and I do get put in the changing room at Gap, and clothes are passed to me under the changing room door.
The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the hilt and are loathe to add more workers. Thus, salaries fall because there are more than enough applicants to fill any job vacancy.
There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.
People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the internal perception and the external impression can feel so large.
I think there’s a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.
If you only have work clothes – the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap – you’re not participating in your own style personality.
Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with a richness rivaled only by elite private schools and those in the most upscale suburbs.
All of us in social media and regular media, we’re all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.
I’m directing and writing the ‘Big Stone Gap’ movie.
There’s a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don’t read very much. Nobody really knows what to do about it, although we’ve tried to reach these dropout readers with the ‘young adult’ book.
There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I’m just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic… That to me was funny.
What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don’t have the resources necessary to fill that gap.
I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child – every Australian child – has true equality of opportunity. We’ve got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
