Student Quotes
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First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites in African-American churches. They're interracially married. They're highly committed. Maybe there's a professor or two, or a student.
Michael Emerson
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I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.
Eleanor Coppola
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Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.
Bill Gates
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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
Francis Ford Coppola
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There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens
David J. Skorton
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Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.
Newton Arvin
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I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.
Mila Kunis
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For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.
Karlfried Graf Durckheim
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I was an officer in my student council.
Niki Tsongas
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When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.
Evan Osnos
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There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.
Anya Kamenetz
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In high school, I was a poor student.
John Prine
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At first I had great expectations, and even if I didn’t say so clearly to myself I was glad to be there with Gigliola Spagnuolo rather than with Lila. In some very secret part of myself I looked forward to a school where she would never enter, where, in her absence, I would be the best student, and which I would sometimes tell her about, boasting. But immediately I began to falter, many of the others proved to be better than me. I ended up with Gigliola in a kind.
Elena Ferrante
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I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels.
Steven Hill
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The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.
Nikolay Konstantinov
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Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge. He was a student at St. Martins College.
Ben Aaronovitch
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I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
Scott Turow
