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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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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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 think we're lied to about a number of things.
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I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.
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I like to laugh at dark things.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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We are rogues and vagabonds waiting by the phone, there to hire for our talents. A bit like prostitutes.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.
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Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
