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“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.”— A. N. Wilson
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“A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.”— Thomas Szasz
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“To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.”— John Strachan
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“I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.”— James Levine
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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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“We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.”— Yakov Smirnoff
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“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.”— Gerald Jampolsky
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“We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.”— James Carville
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“It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.”— Linda Evangelista
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“You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.”— Jay Mohr
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“We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.”— Donald Norman
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“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”— Mark Van Doren
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“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.”— Frederick William Robertson
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“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”— Minna Antrim
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“The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.”— David E. Price
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“Everybody's a teacher if you listen.”— Doris Roberts
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“My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.”— Thom Gunn
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“Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.”— Huston Smith
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“I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.”— Michael Symon
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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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“Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”— Flannery O'Connor
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“If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.”— Laurieann Gibson
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“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.”— Eric Hoffer
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“I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.”— Talib Kweli
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“You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.”— Charles Stanley