L. Todd Rose Quotes
Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
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Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.
