Ernest L. Boyer Quotes
An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
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All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.
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You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.
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I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.
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Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.
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I didn't have a role model when I was younger.
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Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
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We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.
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You know what makes me mad about 'The Bachelorette?' That, you know, that that chick would get a man. Get me a date.
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I'm probably most inspired by good street style that features items I already own; it's always great to see how another person wears something you have, which sort of reinvents it for you.
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Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.
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I'll never feel like I've made it.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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In every operation, there's a risk, and you don't know whether it's gonna... you know, obviously there's that 95% chance, whatever they say, they can never say 100% you're gonna be better. But the concern and the worry is the worst thing.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
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An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.
