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'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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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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Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?
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I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.
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If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.
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From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.
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I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, 'My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.' That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
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I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
