513 private quotes tagged teacher

“I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.” — Kevin Mitnick

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“A good teacher is a determined person.” — Gilbert Highet

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“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?” — Diogenes of Sinope

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“As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.” — Joyce Carol Oates

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“My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.” — Sarah Jessica Parker

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“I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.” — Dan Savage

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“I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.” — Dave Eggers

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“I have to be a teacher to my daughters.” — Carnie Wilson

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“The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.” — James Cash Penney

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“I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'” — Craig Ferguson

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“I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.” — Brad Garrett

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“My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.” — Dominic Monaghan

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“Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.” — Ziggy Marley

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“Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.” — Tom Brown, Jr.

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“I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.” — Alan Shepard

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“Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.” — Nina Simone

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“Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.” — Katey Sagal

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“I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.” — Anna Deavere Smith

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“I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.” — Anne Rice

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“My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.” — Steven Chu

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“It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.” — Quintilian

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“Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.” — George Farquhar

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“You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.” — Darrell Royal

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“I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.” — Nathan Fillion

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“I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.” — Nathan Fillion

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