Sugata Mitra Quotes
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I've directed independent film.
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
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Natura d'ogni cosa più possente.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
