William Fogg Osgood Quotes
The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I grew up in the church.
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I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.
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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
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Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.
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Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.
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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.
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Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
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The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
