John Katzman Quotes
Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.
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Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
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I'd like to protect children, too, but… is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good. … They've midwived a lot of good ideas… lot of great songs, you know? I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. … I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.
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I try to be green as much as I can and it's hard. I feel like I'm never doing enough. [...] For me as an actor, there's only so many things I can do, and this is a way, through a film, to teach and hopefully get the message out to young kids.
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Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
