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Arthur Smith on teacher
Author: Arthur Smith“I’ve noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn’t going to do anyway so here’s something more positive. I’m going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.” -Arthur Smith
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Nina Simone on teacher
Author: Nina Simone“Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.” -Nina Simone
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Alan Shepard on teacher
Author: Alan Shepard“I’d like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.” -Alan Shepard
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Tom Brown, Jr. on teacher
Author: Tom Brown, Jr.“Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.” -Tom Brown, Jr.
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Tom Vilsack on teacher
Author: Tom Vilsack“There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child’s first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.” -Tom…
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Ziggy Marley on teacher
Author: Ziggy Marley“Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.” -Ziggy Marley
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Dominic Monaghan on teacher
Author: Dominic Monaghan“My brother’s a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.” -Dominic Monaghan
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Brad Garrett on teacher
Author: Brad Garrett“I would probably be a teacher if I weren’t a comedian.” -Brad Garrett
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Miroslav Vitous on teacher
Author: Miroslav Vitous“I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn’t really know how to successfully get me going.” -Miroslav Vitous
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Craig Ferguson on teacher
Author: Craig Ferguson“I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word ‘existentialism.’” -Craig Ferguson
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James Cash Penney on teacher
Author: James Cash Penney“The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.” -James Cash Penney
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David Soul on teacher
Author: David Soul“My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.” -David Soul
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Beth Ditto on teacher
Author: Beth Ditto“A few years back, when my style was ‘punk grandma,’ I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more ‘1980s substitute teacher gone wild.’” -Beth Ditto
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Carnie Wilson on teacher
Author: Carnie Wilson“I have to be a teacher to my daughters.” -Carnie Wilson
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Dave Eggers on teacher
Author: Dave Eggers“I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl’s ‘James and the Giant Peach’.” -Dave Eggers
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Dan Savage on teacher
Author: Dan Savage“I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.” -Dan Savage
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Sarah Jessica Parker on teacher
Author: Sarah Jessica Parker“My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that’s not realistic.” -Sarah Jessica Parker
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Katherine Jenkins on teacher
Author: Katherine Jenkins“Oh, stuff the critics. I don’t care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn’t brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to…
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Sloane Crosley on teacher
Author: Sloane Crosley“My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.” -Sloane Crosley
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Alton Brown on teacher
Author: Alton Brown“I’m like a really goofy home ec teacher.” -Alton Brown
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Joyce Carol Oates on teacher
Author: Joyce Carol Oates“As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don’t really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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Diogenes of Sinope on teacher
Author: Diogenes of Sinope“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?” -Diogenes of Sinope
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Shimon Peres on teacher
Author: Shimon Peres“He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was – I wouldn’t say the ‘guru’ – but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.” -Shimon Peres
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Kevin Mitnick on teacher
Author: Kevin Mitnick“I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.” -Kevin Mitnick
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Louis Farrakhan on teacher
Author: Louis Farrakhan“They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.” -Louis Farrakhan