Jake Barton Quotes
Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.
Jake Barton
Quotes to Explore
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
Dakota Blue Richards
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
Madeleine Albright
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
Pat Summerall
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
Safra A. Catz
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A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'
Mark Zuckerberg
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I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
Malin Akerman
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As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.
Jake Barton
