John Taylor Gatto Quotes

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

John Taylor Gatto

Recitation: by Male by Female

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But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

Jock Sturges

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Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

Robert Griffin III

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Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

Steven Pinker

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I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

Simon Helberg

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For no fault of mine, I lost everything.

Shilpa Shinde

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Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election.

Michael Reagan

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.

Christie Brinkley

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I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

Anthony Geary

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I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. '

Peter Fonda

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I guess when I was a kid I wasn't the type of person playing a lot of pranks. I was the type of person upon whom pranks were pulled.

Scott Aukerman

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As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating factors such as mental illness.

Lionel Shriver

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