Teacher Quotes - Page 28

• A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Memories, Latin, Might

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• My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

  Lewis Black

  Mother, Father, Government

  "Lewis Black Is Mad as Usual and He's Going to Take It" by Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. November 2, 2010.

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• If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Voice

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• In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Singing, Opera, Study

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli On Finishing His Master’s And His ‘Passion For Life’". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2013.

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• When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

  Bono

  Jesus, Nice, Nuts

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• A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Smart, Practice

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• My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

  Jeff Bridges

  Inspirational, Mother, Brother

  "The Dude will see you now" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2003.

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• You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

  Eli Broad

  School, Ifs, Principal

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• In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

  Eli Broad

  School, Want, Statements

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• School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

  Eli Broad

  School, Practice, Needs

  Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.140, John Wiley & Sons

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• Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

  Eli Broad

  Succeed, Workplace, Responsible

  "Management Experience Is Paramount" by Eli Broad, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2010.

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• The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

  Eli Broad

  School, Practice, Progress

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• I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

  Alton Brown

  Home, Goofy

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• The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

  H. Rap Brown

  Jobs, Teaching, School

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• Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

  Kobe Bryant

  Sports, Humility, Thinking

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• Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

  Betty Buckley

  Giving, Taught, Technique

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• I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

  Sophia Bush

  Writing, School, Kids

  "Girl Crush Alert: How Sophia Bush Is Using Her Voice to Make a Difference" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 15, 2013.

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• You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Care, Want

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• The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

  Tucker Carlson

  Book, School, Writing

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• In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

  Nell Carter

  Children, Kids, Nurse

  "Actress-singer Nell Carter dies", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2003.

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• Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

  John Jay Chapman

  Life, Teaching, Peculiar

  John Jay Chapman (1957). “Selected Writings”

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• If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

  Dave Chappelle

  Thinking, Salary, Comedy

  "Chappelle the Shape-Shifter Sits Still Long Enough to Chat" by Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2006.

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• I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'

  Margaret Cho

  Art, School, Night

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• A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

  Chris Christie

  Careers, Vision, Benefits

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