Bruce Jackson Quotes

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

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• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Safety
  • Then
  • Public Schools

• I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I think a person has to just be herself.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Think
  • Just
  • Just Be

• Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Fame
  • Annoying
  • Too

• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Living
  • Destruction
  • Ecstasy

• 'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stop

• Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Party
  • Better
  • Communist

• I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Year

• I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Chinese

• I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Step

• In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Woman
  • Struggle
  • Wall

• I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Want
  • Face
  • Decency

• An individual can have a point of view. He is entitled to that.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• 'How, in this day and age, can any one of you claim to be better than your fellow human beings?''Because we are,' said Marilyn Deighton-True with a shrug. 'Face reality, Giles, or it will face you. You can spout all the socialiste nouveau crap you like, but it simply doesn’t apply to a meritocracy.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • True
  • Age
  • Reality

• Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Bible

• Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Trying
  • School
  • Friends

• The custom of bowing to the earth, and the feeling which prompted the casting of dust on the head, in time of bitter affliction, as a sign of broken pride and humble acknowledgment of the truth of the Creator’s words.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Earth
  • Custom
  • Bowing

• And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Want
  • Painting

• Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links.

  

  Stewart Butterfield
  • Market
  • Links
  • Site

• I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

  

  Bruce Jackson