Andreas Schleicher Quotes
You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Art must not serve might.
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Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.
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My parents kept me very grounded.
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What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.
