David Perkins Quotes
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
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When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
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Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.
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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
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I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.
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It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?
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We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.
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The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?
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I have a responsibility to the worker, both blue-collar and white-collar. I have an equal responsibility to the community. It would have been unconscionable to put 3,000 people on the streets and deliver a deathblow to the cities of Lawrence and Methuen. Maybe on paper our company is worthless to Wall Street, but I can tell you it's worth more.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
