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W. Bruce Cameron Quotes

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

W. Bruce Cameron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1960

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Time School Door Face Long Lesson

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Robert McChesney

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Robert Orben

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Andy Stern

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Michael Cimino

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I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

Trevor Paglen

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Rob Lowe

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Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

Roman Jakobson

Sound Begin Us Even Acoustic Many

The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.

Rosemary Mahoney

Calm Slow Find Island Become High