Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes
The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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Lloyd George told me he did not see how we could get successfully through this war...'It is clear that that damn fool Neville Chamberlain never gave a thought to that question - whether we would win - when he declared war. I am not against war, but I am against war when we have no chance of winning.'
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The question of what happens after life is question that unifies human beings.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!
