Anya Kamenetz Quotes
You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
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I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.
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It is better to be likable than to be talented.
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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My focus is on my constituents.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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'You’re the U. S. Robot’s psychologist, aren’t you?' 'Robopsychologist, please.' 'Oh, are robots so different from men, mentally?' 'Worlds different.' She allowed herself a frosty smile, 'Robots are essentially decent.'
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I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.
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I used to work at a pub called The Miner's Rest, and the landlord, Dennis, taught me how to pour a proper pint - it's the type of place where the regulars would send their drinks back if they weren't right.
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If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
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I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.
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Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.
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Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.
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You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional political terms, this is a cabinet that I think is going to have a very hard time delivering to the base that Trump courted in this election.
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You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.
