Ernest L. Boyer Quotes
I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.
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I definitely want to work in Hindi films.
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If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
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We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
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'Republican Party, you're a lie factory, that's all you do.
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Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.
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Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.
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Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.
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I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.
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I write my music.
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I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
