Dana Goldstein Quotes

When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.

Dana Goldstein

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• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

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  Jack London
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• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

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• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

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• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

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• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

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• My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

  

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• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Life
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• Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network.

  

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• Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

  

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• Apparently, I have such a serious race face, even when I'm doing a bit of work, at first everybody wasn't sure if I was enjoying it or not. But it's absolutely exhilarating. It feels like you're one with your horse and you're flying.

  

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• Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

  

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• There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

  

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• My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

  

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• I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.

  

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• Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

  

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• I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

  

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• We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
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• When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Thinking
  • Teacher
  • Teaching