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.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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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.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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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.
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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.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.
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If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.
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We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.
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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.
