Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes
In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.
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We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
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We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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…British louts with guitars and emetic little songs…infantile screamers…
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
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A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.
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Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
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I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.
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The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want.
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The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
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I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC - guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away - I've seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.
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Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.
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No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.
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I don't know anybody who thinks they have it all... I count myself extremely lucky to have a fantastic family and the career I always wanted.
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Learning how to swim is the biggest achievement for me, as it helped me get rid of hydrophobia. Now I have become a complete water baby.
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I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.
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The sophist, in contradistinction to the philosopher, is not set in motion and kept in motion by the sting of the awareness of the fundamental difference between conviction or belief and genuine insight.
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We looked into and tested the Airbnb website and found the inquiries generated were at price points substantially lower than the market is prepared to pay us directly. It was clear that there were no real synergies between the level of our offering and what Airbnb clientele is looking for.
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In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.
