Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes
Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.
Quotes to Explore
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.
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Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
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The blue guitar And I are one.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.
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The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
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Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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On the security front the entire Nato exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure.
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Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.
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Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.
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Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.
