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Gilbert Highet Quotes

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: June 22, 1906 - January 20, 1978

Topics

Health Teacher Value Doctor Believe

Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.

Business Survive Believe Need Order

'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

Good Opportunity Heart Think Thought

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

Brother Book Never Kid Geek Claim

If you don't win a Super Bowl, you're not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.

Good Football Win Remember You

Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.

People America Egypt More Always

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

Robbie Williams

School Me World Think Feelings Know

It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our family, to our communities, etc. - you also contribute to the basic development and evolution of humanity.

Rusty Schweickart

Family Science World Understanding

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

Washington Buy Mine Records Tons

My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking... she wanted to make sure my brother, my sister and I had food in our bellies.

Work Mother Home Food Cooking She

I have a long list of things that make me mad.

Me Long Mad Things Make List

To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

Transparency Congress Employee Nation

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.

Song Small My Own Write Own Started

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