Aisha Tyler Quotes
For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'
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My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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I was a total dork in high school.
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In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
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Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.
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We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.
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I'll be very clear about this: I'm not a fan of getting rid of Dodd-Frank.
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For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
