Brown Campbell Quotes
I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
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Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
