John Philip Sousa Quotes

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

John Philip Sousa

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• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • City
  • Present
  • Thousand

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Always
  • Star
  • Creative

• I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.

  

  Nate Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Children
  • American

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• My forte is awkwardness.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Awkwardness
  • Forte

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Answer
  • Take

• I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Men
  • Home
  • Beer

• Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • American
  • Oppression
  • Walls

• I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Great
  • Why
  • Always

• I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Stage
  • Act
  • Sing

• When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Like
  • First

• I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Good

• The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Journey
  • Littles
  • Blind

• Every town has an Elm Street.

  

  Michael De Luca
  • Street
  • Town
  • Every

• I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Music
  • Car
  • Listen

• I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Business

• I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

  

  John Philip Sousa
  • Teacher
  • Progress