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Gordon Gee Quotes

Online is ridiculous. Places like Ohio State bring people here together, and students teach each other.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: February 2, 1944

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Together People Ridiculous Teach

Staying more controlled mentally stemmed from taking my fitness more seriously. When you're doing track work, sprints and so on, it's pretty painful, but that does make you feel better prepared and therefore mentally stronger when you're going into a match. You know, without a doubt, that you are strong enough to last.

Work Fitness Strong Better Doing

Ideally, I'd love to do a comedy just because, work-wise, it'd be a lot of fun.

Love Fun Comedy Just Because Just

I hope the best for anybody in this business. It's hard enough as it is, and of course you don't get much respect from anybody, but when you do, you should appreciate it.

Business Hope Respect Best Enough

Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Teacher Myself Moment Me Writing

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

Perfection Musicians You Security

When you can listen to others' perspectives, we can learn about the other people that make up this great country.

Great People Learn You Country Up

I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.

White Nashville See Dragon Up Lived

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

Wheel Ancestors Something Sure Maybe

I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.

Myself Say Times Square Square Would

When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.

Life Creative You Will Take Going

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

Doing Buildings I Can Done Kind See

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

Music Reading Think Trying Play

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