David Almond Quotes
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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The proposal is the only thing that the guy has control over in the entire wedding deal. It is your one chance to make this moment stand out, not only for you, but for her.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
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Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.
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It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
