Daniel Pennac Quotes
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.
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I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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I was never really good in school.
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In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'
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The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
