“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”
“Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.”
| John Amos, Actor (1939) |
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| Eva LaRue, Actress (1966) |
| Alan Bates, Actor (2003) |
| Amy Marcy Beach, Musician (1944) |
| Harry Carey, Jr., Actor (2012) |
| Hoagy Carmichael, Composer (1981) |
| Zona Gale, Playwright (1938) |
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