"In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw."

Source : Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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“You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.”
“The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.”

Source : Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.17, Open Road Media
“To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.”
“Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.”
“There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at the knees by the most powerful force in this world and who can still make it fly.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“I have a hard time saying "no" if it's right. I don't say "no" to say "no." I said "no" when I didn't have a pot to piss in. I still said "no" to big money jobs because they didn't make creative sense to me.”
“Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 12, 2005.

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