Edith Hahn Beer Quotes
I think my father knew how to be Jewish, but he didn't teach us. He must have thought we would absorb it with our mother's milk.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.
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For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
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I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.
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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
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You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
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The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.
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The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
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Disasters teach us humility.
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San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.
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I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.
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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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When you teach, you learn.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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I think my father knew how to be Jewish, but he didn't teach us. He must have thought we would absorb it with our mother's milk.
