Students Quotes - Page 32

• I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

  Gary Sloan

  Atheist, School, Numbers

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• I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine.

  Richard Branson

  Writing, School, Entrepreneur

  "New Again: Richard Branson". Interview with Marilyn Achiron, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.

  David Plotz

  Book, School, Thinking

  "Slate: David Plotz Discusses 'Good Book' and What He Learned Blogging the Bible". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2009.

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• The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Years, Gears

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Intake is everything. And that is, that's where you start to realize your ego has no business in our business. Once you think you know everything, it's only a matter of time. So I will forever remain a student.

  Pharrell Williams

  Thinking, Forever, Ego

  "Pharrell, Ryan Seacrest Tout The Joys Of Multi-Tasking At Cannes Lions". Interview with Andrew Hampp, www.billboard.com. June 25, 2015.

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• One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

  Andrew Hoberek

  Art, Thinking, Goal

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• In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

  Trina Robbins

  Hippie, Reading, Character

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Doctors, Sick

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• One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.

  Robert Reich

  Government, Games, People

  Source: collider.com

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• It's hard to swallow when people say, "Oh my God, you're a master of something." I say, "No, I'm actually a student of that. I could turn you on to websites for 25 masters, and you'll quickly see that I am their disciple."

  Nick Offerman

  People, Masters, Website

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam.

  Ann Coulter

  Years, Stories, Vietnam

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• I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.

  Carl Rogers

  Mistake, Educational, Thinking

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• It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

  Terry McMillan

  School, Boys, Class

  Terry McMillan (2013). “Who Asked You?”, p.77, Penguin

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• I taught high school students Spanish.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  School, Taught, High School

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• I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

  Louis Garrel

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• Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.

  Shanola Hampton

  Fun, Teaching, Able

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• I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I dont know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasnt a lot of kids to impress or reign over.

  Nicholas Braun

  Drama, School, Kids

  "Seventeen Chats with Nicholas Braun!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 10, 2009.

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• My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

  Yaya DaCosta

  Mother, Father, Rights

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• By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

  Peter Thiel

  College, May, Ready

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.50, Crown Business

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• I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

  Monica Raymund

  Art, School, Piano

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• I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.

  Spencer Grammer

  Summer, Dirty, School

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

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• Deepika asked questions like a diligent student. She talks little and saves all she has for the shot.

  Sanjay Leela Bhansali

  Littles, Shots, Diligent

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• It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Anvils, Tablets, Ministry

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• The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Uplifting, Development, Helping

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• I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

  Bing Gordon

  Sports, School, Government

  "Power? Thanks, but I’d Rather Have Influence". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2011.

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