William Penn Quotes
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.
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A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.
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I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'
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I didn't say I was running, did I?
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I don't know a lot about politics.
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Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
