teachers

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘teachers’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher’s pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.” -Nicole Anderson

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  • “Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can’t cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.” -Jeanine Basinger

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  • “If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.” -Richard Stengel

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  • “If you don’t have a teacher you can’t have a disciple.” -Dallas Willard

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  • “Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.” -Timothy McVeigh

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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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.” -Eugen Herrigel

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  • “I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke – he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.” -Mikheil Saakashvili

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  • “I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.” -Roald Hoffmann

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  • “I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.” -Burl…

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  • “When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made…

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  • “The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.” -Sheldon Jackson

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  • “Adele Adkins’ retro-soul debut, ’19’, was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.” -Will Hermes

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  • “At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.” -Ama Ata Aidoo

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  • “My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.” -Jai Courtney

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  • “I’ve been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I’m a dancer and my mom’s a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I’d go to see live theatre or a movie, and I’d become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a…

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  • “To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.” -Arthur Holly Compton

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  • “My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a…

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  • “The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared… to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.” -Shirley Hufstedler

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  • “A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.” -Howard Crosby

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  • “It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.” -Edmond H. Fischer

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  • “I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.”…

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

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

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

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

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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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.” -Dan Simmons

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  • “I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.” -Krista Allen

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  • “My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.” -Billy Baldwin

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  • “When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.” -Lance Burton

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  • “I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It’s the ultimate gift of life, and I’m the one who was on the other end.” -Niki Taylor

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  • “I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!” -John Glover

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  • “My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.” -Laura Benanti

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  • “In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.” -Lucas Grabeel

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  • “Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.” -David Puttnam

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  • “I’ve been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I’ve been an editor on magazines.” -Jane Haddam

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  • “I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.” -Gary Burton

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  • “My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.” -Freeman A. Hrabowski III

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  • “He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.” -Glenn Ford

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  • “I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.” -Ann Curry

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  • “My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.” -Chris Hayes

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  • “It’s quite hard to have your mom as a teacher – it’s like, she’s not necessarily a ‘real teacher’ for me. But she’d always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.” -Birdy

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  • “If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.” -James Collins

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  • “In the case of my book, I don’t think it’s really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he’s enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.” -Edmund White

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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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  • “I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports – he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.” -January Jones

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  • “If it wasn’t for my drama teacher, I wouldn’t be here right now.” -Kel Mitchell

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  • “When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn’t as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.” -Carla Bley

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  • “It’s cool for me because I’m a director, but I’m also a teacher. I’m a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.” -John Singleton

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  • “I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.” -Frederick Reines

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  • “Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.” -Shinichi Suzuki

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  • “Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said ‘you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.’ I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.” -Jeffrey Donovan

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  • “Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.” -Giorgio Vasari

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  • “I taught in a small teacher’s college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn’t.” -David Eddings

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  • “In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided ‘recovery funds’ that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs – just here in North Carolina.” -Jim Hunt

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  • “My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.” -Kristin Bauer van Straten

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  • “I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.” -Connie Britton

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  • “You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.” -Alanna Ubach

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  • “Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.” -Bjarne Stroustrup

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  • “That’s a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: ‘Sit down and shut-up!’” -Ed O’Neill

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  • “My painting teacher in high school used to say, ‘I can’t paint like I want to, but through practice I’ll get better.’ But I don’t think that’s true. I think sometimes you just can’t paint.” -Ellie Kemper

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  • “After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.” -Grazia Deledda

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  • “I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.” -Daryl Hall

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  • “When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in – that’s when I realized I had a voice.” -Lily Allen

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  • “If you improve a teacher’s self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher’s overall effectiveness across the curriculum.” -Elaine MacDonald

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  • “My father was a writer and an acting teacher.” -Noah Hathaway

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  • “I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.” -Ziyi Zhang

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  • “I’m sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything – I do everything all wrong – but I think for me that’s the best – because I don’t think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style – if I learned to…

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  • “I wanted to be a ballet teacher.” -Jaclyn Smith

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  • “Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She’d make the…

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  • “I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.” -Mathias Rust

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  • “My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I’d rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney’s barber shop.” -Paul O’Grady

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  • “I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.” -James Galway

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  • “I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like ‘Alright, I’ll try drama.’” -Miles Teller

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  • “I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be ‘The Tree Of Life’ and ‘The Piano Teacher,’ which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.” -Alicia Vikander

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  • “I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.” -George Shearing

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  • “Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.” -Brian Sandoval

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  • “I had a great movement teacher – he showed me how to walk so I wasn’t becoming like a cartoon.” -John Leguizamo

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  • “I went whole hog at the actor’s lifestyle – really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary – that’s the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.” -Peter Jurasik

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  • “Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.” -James S. Coleman

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  • “I’m home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.” -Dakota Fanning

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  • “There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.” -Jonathan Shapiro

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  • “If you’re a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you’re considered a failure.” -Jamie Moyer

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  • “I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can’t think of a profession I have more respect for.” -Jon Hamm

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  • “There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.” -Mark Knopfler

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  • “But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.” -Amartya Sen

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  • “As a teacher myself I’ve been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn’t want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.” -Rosalind Wiseman

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  • “When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I’d composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I’m the same composer I was then.” -Gordon Getty

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  • “I don’t have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.” -Dana Spiotta

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  • “I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.” -Catherine Helen Spence

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  • “Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.” -Peter Agre

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  • “My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.” -Rory Bremner

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  • “I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It’s a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me – I wanted that challenge.” -Jeremy Irvine

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  • “I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, ‘Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.’ So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it’s a whole different market – social media is so important.” -Ben Vereen

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  • “The teacher of history’s work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.” -William Irwin Thompson

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  • “I feel really good in the teacher role.” -Jimmy Chamberlin

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  • “I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.” -Margaret Spellings

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  • “The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.” -Mary Augusta Ward

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  • “A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.” -Wallace Stegner

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  • “There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.” -Robert Sternberg

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  • “I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I’d have like one teacher, which was really bad.” -Devon Sawa

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  • “As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.” -Bill Moyers

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  • “Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler – I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.” -Harvey Keitel

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  • “The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.” -Frank McCourt

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  • “I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.” -Jean Reno

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  • “Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.” -Toru Takemitsu

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  • “The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.” -Kurt Masur

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  • “I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister’s lessons.” -Marvin Hamlisch

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  • “What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It’s not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.” -Ken Wilber

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  • “Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.” -Pat Boone

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  • “I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.” -Jon Secada

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  • “I had an art teacher who’s the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That’s where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.” -Sela Ward

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  • “When I was writing ‘The Abstinence Teacher,’ I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.” -Tom Perrotta

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  • “I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I’ve ever…

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  • “The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.” -Frances Farmer

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  • “I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.” -Anne Sullivan Macy

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  • “When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don’t say that to brag, I just want to be an example.” -Big Sean

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  • “I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw ‘How to be a Stand-up Comedian,’ it resonated. I realized I’d rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.” -Wendy Liebman

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  • “I always wanted to be a teacher.” -Nicky Hilton

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  • “I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.” -Martin Mull

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  • “People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.” -Doug E. Fresh

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  • “I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren’t wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.” -Eva Longoria

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  • “I didn’t want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn’t go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, ‘No, I’ll go to school and then I’ll be an English teacher that’ll be fun.’ But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn’t inspire those…

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  • “There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 – and 11,000 higher than 1997.” -Estelle Morris

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  • “My old teacher’s definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.” -Thom Gunn

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  • “The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn’t matter if you’re an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist – you can’t really help it when you have feelings for someone.” -Jessica Szohr

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  • “I wasn’t a very good teacher.” -Amos Lee

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  • “If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.” -Richard Dreyfuss

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  • “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” -Hector Berlioz

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  • “When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.” -George J. Mitchell

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  • “I wasn’t a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called ‘creative movement.’ The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, ‘Now go dance.’ So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.” -Carrie Ann Inaba

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  • “I’ve always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don’t think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.” -Justin Townes Earle

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  • “For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, ‘The voice follows… the voice follows everything about you… who you are.’” -Betty Buckley

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  • “As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.” -Sue Kelly

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  • “And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It’s been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you’ll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.” -Dave Winfield

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  • “So what does a good teacher do? Create tension – but just the right amount.” -Donald Norman

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  • “My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.” -C. L. R. James

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  • “Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.” -Maggie Gallagher

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  • “I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.” -Dominic Cooper

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  • “I don’t find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I’m not saving anybody’s life, I’m not a teacher, I’m not working for UNICEF. I don’t think I’m some big deal.” -Ellen Pompeo

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  • “You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I’ve been doing are based on different people I might’ve had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.” -Danny McBride

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  • “A father is a person who’s around, participating in a child’s life. He’s a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.” -Michael Nutter

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  • “Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.” -Keith Emerson

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  • “Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.” -Krist Novoselic

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  • “You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.” -Joan Cusack

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  • “I wasn’t originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.” -Kevin Richardson

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  • “My dad was a football player – a soccer player – for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.” -Ian McShane

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  • “As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.” -Ed Pastor

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  • “Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher’s diploma.” -Sarah Sutton

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  • “My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.” -Ajay Naidu

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  • “I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class – I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.” -Eva Green

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  • “My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I’m finding out it’s not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It’s more about staying healthy and flexible.” -Josh Duhamel

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  • “I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.” -Matt Cameron

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  • “My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.” -Simon Callow

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  • “My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.” -Loni Anderson

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  • “My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.” -Niklaus Wirth

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  • “Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.” -David Guterson

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  • “I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.” -Tony Visconti

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  • “My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.” -Steve Case

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  • “My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn’t be trusted.” -Mike Shinoda

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  • “We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher’s salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.” -Major Owens

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