"A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives."

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Source : "Reflections on Going from the Ghetto to Governor's Office". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

Deval Patrick

#Teacher Quotes #Differences Quotes #And Love Quotes

“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”
“Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.”
“I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton].”
“Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.”
“LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”
“The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.”
“I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated, you feel pressure to choose. I feel more comfortable living in the paradoxes that I've named and laid out, whereas when I started they might have felt like real agitations. At least I see them more clearly after having sketched them for myself and made a place to stand in relationship to them that felt okay enough to last through the course of a book.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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