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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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.
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I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
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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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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
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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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I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.
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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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It's best to keep acting real.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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To truly care about this country is to demonstrate that you care about her politics the same when you're winning as when you're losing.
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The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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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.
