Gerald Chertavian Quotes

Many of our students say, 'We wish we had a mentor in high school. We wish we had someone we could spend more time with, who paid more attention to us, who I could sit down with and talk to when I had a problem.' So relationships are critical.

Gerald Chertavian

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Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.

Jessica Stockholder

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I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.

John Curran

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When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

John Lennon

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Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

Anna Freud

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Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

Amitava Kumar

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I'm putting jobs over ideology.

Stephen Fincher

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After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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I'm a strong alpha male but sensitive.

Jason Momoa

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I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

Dino De Laurentiis

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Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.

DMX

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I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

Chris Gardner

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I think partly the problem with Yes - and I've had this discussion with people from the Hall of Fame in the past - is that it's going to be difficult to decide how many of the members of Yes you're gonna put in it and how many you're not because of the extensive membership of the band through the years.

Chris Squire

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