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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The minimum wage should be a living wage.
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The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.
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A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.
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You're not going to ask me that and if you did I'd pretend that you didn't because everybody and their mother plus their dog and cat and their goldfish asks me that.
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He has a heart of gold - only harder.
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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.
