David Barton Quotes
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media. Reading Everyday Important Literacy Everyday Life Print Mass Media Social Aspect Contemporary Firsts Mass Media Practice Range Available
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
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Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
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You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
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You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
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I have scored some big-time goals. I've done well in Algarve Cups. I've done well in World Cup and Olympic qualifiers, Olympics. In big games when we're playing top-five teams. But yet, you never see my face or my name out there. And it has frustrated me my entire career.
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The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.
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I love Justice Marshall. He did an enormous amount for me. But if you confirm me to this position, you will get Justice Kagan. You won't get Justice Marshall, and that's an important thing.
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It is an award for American excellence that excludes and sometimes gracefully includes some other countries. It is an institution or brand created by Hollywood to promote itself, an award decided by 15 people. How nice it would have been if Satyajit Ray, instead of all his awards, got a few more audiences?
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I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.
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It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.
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I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that's important to me as an artist and a person.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
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Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media. Reading Everyday Important Literacy Everyday Life Print Mass Media Social Aspect Contemporary Firsts Mass Media Practice Range Available
