Sugata Mitra Quotes

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

Sugata Mitra

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: February 12, 1952

Topics

PovertyPowerfulEntertainmentMore

I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.

Andrew Lansley

DayPeopleShoppingMysteryGo

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

Matt Dillon

MoreGreatestLikeBoyfriendCreep

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

Anita Diament

FamilyChildhoodEarlyNewDenver

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

Jeannette Rankin

PeopleCongressHalfShould

More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and the rain god, only vaguely concerned with the political entity known as Guatemala.

Stephen Kinzer

GodRainProudPoliticalMoreCorn

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

Tu Youyou

FamilyFatherMotherGirlMeBank

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

Tom Ford

LifeTimeFocusPrivate LifeOnce

The serious professional skateboarder doesn't have a job. They get paid enough not to.

Rob Dyrdek

JobEnoughProfessionalSeriousPaid

I urge the Department of Education not to settle for half-measures when it comes to students.

Dick Durbin

EducationSettleStudentsDepartment

Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

GovernmentWiseBelieveInvestment

We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else.

Claire Messud

WomenLiveCultureAngerFaceThink

All I can say is it's improper to criticize someone 30 years later.

Bobby Clarke

SomeoneI CanSayYearsCriticize

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