James Forman, Jr. Quotes
Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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I don't have a problem with any defenders. I've always played against great defenders.
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No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.
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Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.
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Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.
