Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Quotes
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.
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Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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In my lifeWhy do I smileAt people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?
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Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.
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I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.
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Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.
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I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.
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In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
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Men always like what the ladies like.
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The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.
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When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
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Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.
