Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes
We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
Caleb Cushing
I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
Samantha Bond
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
Vernon Wells
The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
D. A. Pennebaker
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
Wadada Leo Smith
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
Kate Hudson
Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
Aldo Leopold
Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.
Christine Tsai
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.
Mary Beard
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
Anne Enright
I always have to make it as clear as I possibly can that fame is 99.9 percent good.
Kevin Bacon
As a people, Serbians are very tall, and we have olive skin and dark hair, which can look very nice. You have to be very beautiful to stand out.
Ana Ivanovic