Maryanne Wolf Quotes

I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.

Maryanne Wolf

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LearningChallengeChildhoodI Am

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

WorkBusinessDayPeopleLookGo

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

Sue Kelly

EducationStepChildLearnAchieving

In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

MusicMoneyFunHave FunEnjoyYou

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove

PoetryCloudsMeFeelSomething

I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

Debby Ryan

Be DifferentAfraidDifferent

I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

Bong Joon-ho

LoveTimeHateExpectationsFeeling

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

Arthur Henderson

WarWorldCivilizationProsperity

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Thomas Sowell

LiveImaginationWorldKindUpEven

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

Norman Granz

PeopleEnoughJazzMoreSuccessful

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit.

Rene Burri

BookPicturesDaysTakeGoingDid

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

Lynn Nottage

StoryUniquePlayWriteOwnOrigin

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

Lew Wasserman

GreatControlDaysThingsMayDeal

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