Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes
In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.
Quotes to Explore
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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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If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
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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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I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.
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If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.
