Students Quotes - Page 17

• I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Writing, Creative, Creative Writing

  "Trisha's Southern Comfort". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.redbookmag.com. August 14, 2008.

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• Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

  James Morcan

  Labels, Genius, Freak

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• MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.

  Sam Wineburg

  Integrity, Teaching, Writing

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• James Remar is a student of life. I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living.

  James Remar

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.

  Alison Lurie

  Self Esteem, School, Independent

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• Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.

  Craig S. Keener

  Book, Writing, Perspective

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• I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.

  Robert Adams

  Careers, Trying, Might

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

  Bruno Mars

  Jobs, Artist, Curves

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

  Herman Melville

  Ships, Heavy

  Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.509, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

  Caitlin Moran

  Regret, College, Age

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• An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

  Criss Jami

  Teacher, School, Theory

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.96, Criss Jami

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• I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon.

  Ronda Rousey

  Doctors, Research, Afternoon

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• So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'

  Eli Roth

  Stars, School, Night

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2009.

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• So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Teenager, Grandchildren

  "Angle to Hispanic children: “Some of you look a little more Asian to me”". lasvegassun.com. October 18, 2010.

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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  Abraham Verghese

  Years, Medicine, Suffering

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• I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Father, Coffee, Iowa

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• The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

  Richard A. Clarke

  Media, Achievement, Causes

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• The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

  Albert Goldman

  Study, Jew

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• I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

  Carol Anshaw

  Book, Writing, Way

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• I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

  Tony D'Souza

  Doubt, Great American, Certain

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• From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

  Robert James Graves

  Progress, Disease, Study

  Introductory Lectures (1850)

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• Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.

  Will Hermes

  Song, Teacher, Voice

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• In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

  Bill Viola

  Art, Thinking, Made

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• I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humor doesn't know what he's talking about.

  Jackie Mason

  Art, Philosophical, Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

  Edward Hirsch

  Education, School, People

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