Norman Finkelstein Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
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This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
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You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.
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Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.
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It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.
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When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
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One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
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When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.
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The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.
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He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.
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I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.
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The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.
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I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.
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It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.
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It's going to be a great thing. It's going to raise a lot of money. It's going to raise a lot of awareness about how badly help is needed. And all in all it's gonna be a great show.
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Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.
