"I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools."

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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Education, School, Creativity, Irony, Discipline

"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Education, Wisdom, Learning, Inspirational, Mind

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Education, Knowledge, Learning, Curiosity, Awareness

"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"

Stephen King, American Author

Education, Truth, Wisdom, Happiness, Regret

"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

Stephen King, American Author

Education, Reading, Writing, Expectation, Truth

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Education, Mother, People, College, Ignorance

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Education, Respect, Choice, Key

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Education, Virtue, Children, First, Importance

"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Education, Teaching, Knowledge, Secrets, Learning

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Education, History, Race

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"I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase."

Quit

"So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams."

Dream

"My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression."

Attitude

"In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy."

Woman

"I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity."

Wisdom

"I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time."

Time

"Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth."

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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

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"I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase."

"I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book."

"I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression."

"She was a genius, my mother."

"So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams."

"My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression."

"In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy."

"I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity."

"I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time."

"Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth."