James S. Coleman Quotes
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I love nature.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
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I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
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There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.
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You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.
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The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.
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Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
