Students Quotes - Page 27

• I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

  Lisi Harrison

  Athlete, Imagination, Focus

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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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• There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

  Trey Gowdy

  Jobs, Errors, Paper

  "Gowdy to first-hand account Benghazi eyewitnesses: You will be protected". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 30, 2013.

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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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• 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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• Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, School, Garden

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.172, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• 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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• Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Jobs, Teaching, Hardest Job

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.

  Kevin Powers

  Memories, Powerful, School

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• Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

  Alexis Bledel

  Writing, School, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.

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• Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

  August Kekule

  School, Science, Pupils

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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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• I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

  Kathy Acker

  "Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?". Interview with R.U. Sirius, io Magazine, Issue 2, www.altx.com. December 9, 1997.

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• Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

  Charles M. Vest

  Awards, Pell Grants, Tuition

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Writing, Creative, Creative Writing

  "Trisha's Southern Comfort". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.redbookmag.com. August 14, 2008.

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• For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

  Denise Juneau

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  "2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by The Honorable Denise Juneau". Reuters, September 05, 2012.

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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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• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Art, Hard Work, Math

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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• We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Struggle

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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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• If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

  Annie Baker

  College, Thinking, Opposites

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• I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.

  Anthony Braxton

  Narrative Structure, Guy, Intellectual

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• How to Stay Christian in Seminary should be placed in the hands of every first-year seminarian. It provides a much-needed balance as they navigate the beautiful but treacherous waters of a seminary education. I plan to use this powerful little book with great profit for my students in the years ahead.

  Daniel L. Akin

  Beautiful, Christian, Powerful

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