Lynn Schusterman Quotes
It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.
Quotes to Explore
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The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
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When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.
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My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.
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It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.
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The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.
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It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
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A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.
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I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
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People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
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The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.
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Violence is an expression of impotence.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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All change begins with someone having a thought.
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I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.
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It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.
