Alice Dreger Quotes
If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.
Quotes to Explore
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
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I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.
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I know and live with the real Dilip Kumar. He is a simple man, hard working, who has survived time.
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The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.
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If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.
