Dan Simmons Quotes
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
Dan Simmons
Quotes to Explore
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
Quentin Tarantino
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
Uday Kotak
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
Nancy Lublin
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I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
Natalie Morales
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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
Randi Weingarten
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I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
Patrick Stewart
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
Xun Kuang
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The biggest thing, the most important thing I learned about watching someone I loved being ill was to take each day and live it because you never knew how many days you had left with the person you loved.
Barbara Cameron
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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
Albert Einstein
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
Dan Simmons
