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  • Evan Thomas on teacher

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    “We’re understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There’s some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, ‘Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the

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  • Abdoulaye Wade on teacher

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    “The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.” -Abdoulaye Wade

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  • Vijay Singh on teacher

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    “Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player – more than listening to a teacher – is the best way to get it.” -Vijay Singh

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  • Tyler Posey on teacher

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    “I took Spanish in high school and I didn’t do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.” -Tyler Posey

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  • Robert Gibbs on teacher

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    “I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout – but I know that’s not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.” -Robert Gibbs

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  • Miranda Cosgrove on teacher

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    “I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it’s completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.” -Miranda Cosgrove

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  • Kid Cudi on teacher

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    “Once I accomplish one thing and I’m satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I’ll become a kindergarten teacher.” -Kid Cudi

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  • Peter Bichsel on teacher

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    “That is a secondary teacher conception – the writer as an observer.” -Peter Bichsel

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  • Victor Salva on teacher

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    “When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year’s regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.” -Victor Salva

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  • Carlos Pena, Jr. on teacher

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    “I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.” -Carlos Pena, Jr.

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  • Simon van der Meer on teacher

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    “My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher’s family.” -Simon van der Meer

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  • Marta Kristen on teacher

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    “I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.” -Marta Kristen

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  • Didi Conn on teacher

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    “When I was in fourth grade… this wonderful teacher said you didn’t have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that’s what I did. I got to be so famous. I had

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  • Ally Condie on teacher

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    “One of the things I’ve always liked about my husband is he’s very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he’s very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy

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  • Chad Hugo on teacher

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    “I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can’t really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.” -Chad Hugo

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  • Mark Mothersbaugh on teacher

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    “My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn’t visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn’t work.” -Mark Mothersbaugh

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  • James Tobin on teacher

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    “My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.” -James Tobin

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  • Kerry Healey on teacher

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    “As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.” -Kerry Healey

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  • Kay Granger on teacher

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    “I reached a time in college when I didn’t know what I wanted to do. At that time, women’s careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher’s certificate.” -Kay Granger

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  • Christopher Durang on teacher

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    “I didn’t have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.” -Christopher Durang

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  • Patricia Neal on teacher

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    “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.” -Patricia Neal

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  • David Benioff on teacher

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    “I’m just not a natural teacher.” -David Benioff

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  • Daniel H. Hill on teacher

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    “Jackson went from the professor’s chair to the officer’s saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.” -Daniel H. Hill

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  • Aida Turturro on teacher

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    “I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.” -Aida Turturro

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  • Ving Rhames on teacher

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    “Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should

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