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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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• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

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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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

  

  Nancy Roman
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• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
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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.

  

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

  

  Narendra Modi
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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.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Imagination
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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.

  

  A. C. Benson
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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.

  

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

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Teacher
  • Teachers
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• My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Character
  • Me
  • Educated

• 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

  

  Jackson Pollock
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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.

  

  David Harewood
  • School
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• I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books, including 'Fraction Fun,' 'Calculator Riddles,' and 'Shape Up!' 'Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons.'

  

  David A. Adler
  • Up
  • Fun
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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.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Life
  • American
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • People
  • Fire
  • Stories

• I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than telling a story through images. Of course, you're trying to do both. And there are some people who are brilliant at it, but I don't consider myself to be particularly good at it. My mind gets into a verbal mode.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
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• One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Teacher
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• '9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

  

  Dolly Parton
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• New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.

  

  Zelda Popkin
  • Life
  • Mind
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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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