Erin Gruwell Quotes
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.
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As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.
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The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
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She looked creepy/adorable.
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I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.
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How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.
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We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
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I feel like your generation is like, "We deserve a place at this table, we have a right to be here," whereas when I was in my 20s I was like, "Who am I?" It's exciting because I do see a lot of young women feeling empowered.
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
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I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.