Esme Raji Codell Quotes
So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning.
