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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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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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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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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I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Of course the King is mistaken. But is natural that he should be frighten of taking the plunge. We have lost a great opportunity by not intervening at once. But later the King may change his mind, and it may be not too late.
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Well, Led Zeppelin IV! That's it really. I'll tell you why the album had no title - because we were so fed up with the reactions to the third album, that people couldn't understand why that record wasn't a direct continuation of the second album. And then people said we were a hype and all, which was the furthest thing from what we were. So we just said, `let's put out an album with no title at all!' That way, either people like it or they don't... but we still got bad reviews!
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Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.
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So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning.
