Erin Gruwell Quotes

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

Erin Gruwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 15, 1969

Topics

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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

John Grierson

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Honestly, being a store manager was the best job I ever had.

Ann-Marie Campbell

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How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

Sophocles

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You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Steve Madden

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My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

Steve Nash

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If people want to compare me to Danny DeVito, that's the biggest gift there is. I think Danny DeVito is fantastic.

Robin Lord Taylor

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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Joseph Howe

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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

Dean Koontz

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I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a theater actor. When I was starting out, I didn't really plan on making films, actually.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

Christine Baranski

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As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.

Annie Leibovitz

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After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

Wole Soyinka

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