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James S. Coleman Quotes

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

James S. Coleman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 12, 1926 - March 25, 1995

Topics

School Student Athlete Brilliant

If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

You Eat Bring Wear Shoot

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

You Play Sincere

'Spring One' probably has only four bars of Vivaldi in it, but it feels like it's all Vivaldi. It's odd. It's a bit like walking around a sculpture, you just sort of see it from a different angle.

Spring Walking You Sculpture See

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

Beginning Baby Movies More Steps

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

Peace War World Being Cannot Come

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

Stokely Carmichael

Time Vote Privilege Right Tried

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Failure Struggle Men Seem About

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

City Think Searching Thieves Seem

If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her life is perfect. And yet there is something within each of us that basically knows we are boundless, limitless.

Life Crazy Think You Perfect Nobody

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Dorothea Brande

Success Failure Impossible Face Fail

I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.

Learning Good Respect Treat Think

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

William Glasser

Knowledge Focus Thinking Facts Much

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