Students Quotes - Page 17

• Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.

  Lincoln Chafee

  America, President, Turns

  "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!

  Peter Diamandis

  School, Years, Organization

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Teaching, Salary

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• States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

  Arne Duncan

  Balance, States, Should

  "Campus Protests Should Remind Us All of College’s Value" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

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• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Arne Duncan

  Opportunity, College, Risk

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• Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

  Arne Duncan

  Country, Dad, Father

  "My Most Important Job" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Morning, Home, Organization

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• Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities.

  Gordon Gee

  Powerful, Class, Ohio State

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Beautiful, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools.

  Harry Browne

  School, Poor Education, Government

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• Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

  Philip Kaufman

  Creative, Inspire, Directors

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Art, Media, Entertainment

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• I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

  Luis Fortuno

  Party, College, Republican

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• Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Player, College, Sight

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• The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Jobs, College

  "All-in-one stop for small business". www.politico.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

  Lucy Hale

  School, Made, Hated

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• I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

  Tayari Jones

  Writing, Practice, Honor

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• I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

  Leslie Jamison

  Teacher, Lucky, Way

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• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  Ma Jian

  Book, Years, Squares

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.

  Etgar Keret

  Talking, Giving, Stories

  "This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.

  Alex Kapranos

  Years, Ties, Boho

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Teaching, Thinking, Class

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• I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

  Paul Nurse

  Art, Philosophy, Wife

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• Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

  Paul Nurse

  Philosophy, Real, Careers

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