Dana Goldstein Quotes
There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors. And yet there's this political conversation - this reform conversation - that paints a very negative picture of the effectiveness of the teaching population. So there's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.
Quotes to Explore
-
When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
-
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
-
I dig all kinds of competition.
-
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
-
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
-
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
-
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
-
I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
-
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
-
As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
-
You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
-
'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
-
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
-
It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.
-
If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.
-
It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
-
Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
-
A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
-
My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush - all suggested a war was brewing.
-
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!
-
I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously.
-
Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.
-
Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
-
There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors. And yet there's this political conversation - this reform conversation - that paints a very negative picture of the effectiveness of the teaching population. So there's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.
