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teacher sex children
People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch. Nick Harkaway
teacher writing class
The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote. Michael Jackson
teacher brain size
My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure. Willard Wigan
teacher thoughtful people
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. Willard Scott
teacher excellence mediocrity
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. Warren G. Bennis
teacher pride self
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association. Zora Neale Hurston
teacher mistake reason
My relationship with Leonard [Nimoy] was a byproduct of playing Spock that I never would have imagined, but the more I got to know him, the more I realized, there are no mistakes. I'm playing this role for very specific reasons, and maybe those reasons have to do with where I am creatively in my life, but maybe they have to do with where I am personally in my life. Leonard was such a teacher for me. Zachary Quinto
teacher school people
I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc. Yusef Lateef
teacher school talking
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. William Glasser
years sam-cooke
I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old. Bobby Womack
years issues adequate
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads. Bobby Scott
years cpr police
In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR. Bobby Sherman
years guy half
At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right. Bobby Knight
years trying sometimes
Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right. Alex Chilton
years waiting drug
Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.
years law different
I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles. Alex Flinn
years trying standards
I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago. Alex Ferguson
years trophies manchester-united
There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.
class our-world alliances
This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities. Steve Fisher
class people stories
You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me. Spike Lee
class discipline mind
It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific. Margaret Mead
class long leader
The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor. Marcus Buckingham
class generosity important
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. Michael Parenti
class america ships
Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers. Martin O'Malley
class germany nazi
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis. Nick Clooney
class people guy
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. Michael Caine
class tragedy trouble
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes. Oscar Wilde