"By the time that book So You Want to Be President? came along, we had already had enough presidents that had shown us that presidents are human beings. So I felt I was contributing to the common knowledge there, but not revealing anything really new - sort of supporting what everybody already was suspicious of."

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Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

David Small

#Book Quotes #President Quotes #Common Quotes

“Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.”
“Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.”
“She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.”
“In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.
“My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.”
“All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will”
“Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.”
“Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injuryâ€¦”

Source : Carol Anshaw (2012). “Carry the One: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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