Urie Bronfenbrenner Quotes
There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
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There has always been cheating going on in pitching and hitting. As far as cheating, using a wooden bat and flattening the hitting surface, that has always been going on. ... It is usually discovered in pretty good time.
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I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's a tool to prepare for the worst. By envisioning it in an artistic context, you can make sense of it before and after it happens.
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Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.
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The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
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There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.
