Wes Scantlin Quotes
I was in solitary confinement for three months," he explained. "There weren't any other inmates. I was basically just locked in a cage. I didn't have anybody to look at or talk to — it was just one jail cell after another.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.
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As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.
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Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
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In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.
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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.
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My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.
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The artist after all is a solitary being.
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I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.
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I was in solitary confinement for three months," he explained. "There weren't any other inmates. I was basically just locked in a cage. I didn't have anybody to look at or talk to — it was just one jail cell after another.
