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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
self self-destruction destruction
destruction is ultimately self-destruction. Anais Nin
self world monsters
Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
self needs hunger
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
self balance association
Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.
self world lenses
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world ...
self two curiosity
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
self people stories
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie
self way action
…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves. Richard Matheson
self crucible mastery
Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted Tariq Ramadan
perfect sorts storm timing
This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available. Stu Jackson
perfect needs
So perfect — I’m right where I need to be! Adam Dunn
perfect gone bullets
You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory) Sherrilyn Kenyon
perfect balance boring
See I'm the reckless and wild one who saves him from being boring. It's why we're perfect for each other. We balance. - Madame Selena
perfect feelings sweden
In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings. Noomi Rapace
perfect ifs knows
Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect. Nora Roberts
perfect goes-on world
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all Nikolai Gogol
perfect balance may
Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe. Nikola Tesla
perfect lucky married
I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person. Mireille Enos