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Students Quotes

"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."

Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian Scientist

Students, Years

10

"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."

Theodore Sturgeon, American Writer

Students, First, Writing

4

"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."

Kinky Friedman, American Musician

1

"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"

Betty Buckley, American Actress

Students, Voice, Years

1

"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

1

"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"

Mark E. Smith, English Musician

1

"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."

Jack Steinberger, American Physicist

1

"One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming."

Haldan Keffer Hartline, American Scientist

"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Students, Rapport, Surprises

"Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families."

Ellen Tauscher, American Politician

Students, America, Class, Tax, Middleclass

"I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing."

Merce Cunningham, American Dancer

"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Students, Open, State

"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."

James Cronin, American Physicist

"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."

Norm Coleman, American Politician

Students, America, Economy, Interest, Schools

"I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them."

Arno Penzias, American Scientist

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