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My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.

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• There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

  

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• Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

  

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• My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

  

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• If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

  

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• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  

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• My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.

  

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• Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

  

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• My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

  

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• My work with Benton was important as something against which to react very strongly, later on; in this, it was better to have worked with him than with a less resistant personality who would have provided a much less strong opposition. At the same time Benton introduced me to Renaissance art. remark on his former art-teacher w:Thomas Hart Benton

  

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• At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

  

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• Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

  

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• I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.

  

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• I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

  

  Martha Stewart
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• I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.

  

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• Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
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• You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.

  

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• Even Spartacus needs a coach.

  

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• I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?

  

  Leslie Moonves
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• I am alone. No one stands beside me. I have no Dark Prince to ride in my chariot, to walk with me, to hold me to him. I have no one. And yet. I myself, at last, I have myself. And to me, at this time, it seems enough. It seems more, much more, than enough.

  

  Tanith Lee
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• I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

  

  Colin Farrell
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• My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.

  

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