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Mikhail Gorbachev on teacher
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev“America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.” -Mikhail Gorbachev
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Chris Pratt on teacher
Author: Chris Pratt“The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. ‘Bridesmaids’ is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as ‘Bad Teacher.’” -Chris Pratt
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Tony Dungy on teacher
Author: Tony Dungy“You never know what’s going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.” -Tony Dungy
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Michael Morpurgo on teacher
Author: Michael Morpurgo“It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.” -Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Symon on teacher
Author: Michael Symon“I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.” -Michael Symon
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Kate Adie on teacher
Author: Kate Adie“I was sent to a nice Church of England girls’ school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary – prior to marriage.” -Kate Adie
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Kate Clinton on teacher
Author: Kate Clinton“A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell’s Soup kid.” -Kate Clinton
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Anthony Holden on teacher
Author: Anthony Holden“I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.” -Anthony Holden
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Renee Fleming on teacher
Author: Renee Fleming“No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.” -Renee Fleming
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Mark Zandi on teacher
Author: Mark Zandi“In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn’t know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating…
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George Osborne on teacher
Author: George Osborne“I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.” -George Osborne
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Allan Bloom on teacher
Author: Allan Bloom“There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.” -Allan Bloom
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Stephen Colbert on teacher
Author: Stephen Colbert“I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn’t like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.” -Stephen…
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Christa McAuliffe on teacher
Author: Christa McAuliffe“NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.” -Christa McAuliffe
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Brian Ferneyhough on teacher
Author: Brian Ferneyhough“When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.” -Brian Ferneyhough
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Harold Bloom on teacher
Author: Harold Bloom“The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.” -Harold Bloom
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Nathan Fillion on teacher
Author: Nathan Fillion“I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed – no, I didn’t fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn’t try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.” -Nathan Fillion
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Darrell Royal on teacher
Author: Darrell Royal“You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.” -Darrell Royal
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Quintilian on teacher
Author: Quintilian“It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.” -Quintilian
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Steven Chu on teacher
Author: Steven Chu“My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.” -Steven Chu
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Anne Rice on teacher
Author: Anne Rice“I claim Dickens as a mentor. He’s my teacher. He’s one of my driving forces.” -Anne Rice
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Dave Grohl on teacher
Author: Dave Grohl“My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.” -Dave Grohl
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Condoleezza Rice on teacher
Author: Condoleezza Rice“My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.” -Condoleezza Rice
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Anna Deavere Smith on teacher
Author: Anna Deavere Smith“I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.” -Anna Deavere Smith
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Katey Sagal on teacher
Author: Katey Sagal“Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done.” -Katey Sagal