John Holt Quotes
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
Quotes to Explore
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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That muche is my bowe bent to shoote at these marks, And kyll feare, when the sky falth we shall haue larks.
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I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.
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I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
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I want to always be an interloper. I never want to feel like I'm a guy who is embraced by the people who are putting me on the air. I want to feel like I broke into the studio and took over and made them mad. If I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.
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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
