Amanda Ripley Quotes

It was interesting to note that higher standards were seen not as an investment in students; they were seen, first and foremost, as a threat to teachers.

Amanda Ripley

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• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Always
  • Same
  • News

• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Day

• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Work
  • Important
  • Job

• Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Boxing

• As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Know
  • Sound

• I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Light

• The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Stop
  • Best

• Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Up
  • Good
  • Woman

• Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

  

  Dan Coats
  • History
  • Action
  • Air

• One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Short
  • Feminine

• It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Child

• Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

  

  Irving Penn
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I plan to talk to a lot of people and structure my life in a way that might have a bit more flexibility and a lot more fun factor, ... I don't intend to rush (into a job). I have the luxury of time.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Question

• I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Believe
  • True
  • Knowledge

• God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Air
  • Speak
  • Sound

• I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Students
  • Class
  • Whatever

• It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • People
  • Impression
  • Standards

• At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.

  

  Nita Ambani
  • Children
  • School
  • Attention

• It was interesting to note that higher standards were seen not as an investment in students; they were seen, first and foremost, as a threat to teachers.

  

  Amanda Ripley
  • Students
  • Investment
  • Standards