Sugata Mitra Quotes
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.
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Sometimes people are looking for, 'What's the next Tesla car? What's this really cool, super-specific thing that people are going to want?' But I try to be just like a Ford truck. They sell a lot more Ford trucks than they do Tesla cars.
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This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
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You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.
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I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.
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You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.
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I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.
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My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages long, and we bound it and colored the front. And she wrote on mine, 'I can't wait till your real novel comes out. Give me a call.'
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A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.
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A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.
