Sugata Mitra Quotes
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.
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I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.
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I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism - people are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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In 1983, my second year of law school, I became the only white player in the Ogden Park Basketball League at 65th and Racine. My teammates joked that I integrated the league, which I guess is true. They weren't so much focused on integration as on winning, and they knew you can't teach height. 'He can't jump, but he sure is tall.'
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The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'
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Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.
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I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it's a choice: would you rather work at McDonald's or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald's over the sell side.
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I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
