Howard Gardner Quotes

The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society, and they can't be solved by lots of testing and by punitive actions against schools that are not performing well.

Howard Gardner

Recitation: by Male by Female

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SocietyProblemsTrendsSystemWell

You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.

Jimmy Iovine

HappyDoingCustomerYouWrongTry

Every child should have a safe place in their life.

Joe Manchin

LifeChildPlaceSafeSafe Place

Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder.

Jennifer Granholm

EyeFreeRestUsSeemsStuff

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.

John McWhorter

GreatSchoolLearnInterestingWest

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

John Updike

ScienceScience FictionNeedKid

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

Steve Buscemi

ResponsibilityMeActorDirectorHe

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Steven Wright

LiveGreatSkiingSmallYouCountry

If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'

Tom Hiddleston

SpiritualI AmMeWorldKnowBelong

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

Robin Marantz Henig

PlayEssenceActionsFluidSequence

All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.

Rusty Schweickart

TodayValueWeatherKnowResources

Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

SocietyRememberYouPlaceLiving

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

Michael Strahan

GreatFootballGreat ThingsThings

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