Gary Herbert Quotes
I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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Without hope we live in desire.
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A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.
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When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.
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Time flies whether you are having fun or not.
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I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.
