Alex Spanos Quotes
The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
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Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven." "The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
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If you do right, everything will come out right.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
