Dan Simmons Quotes

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

Dan Simmons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1948

Topics

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People for the most part can smell lies.

Joe Rogan

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I got to fight the greatest-of-all-time in my weight division - not once but twice. I was watching this guy when I was 16 years old when I first started kickboxing. I wanted to fight Aldo in a kickboxing match. A couple years later, I came to MMA and wanted to fight him. 10 years later, I got to fight the man twice.

Max Holloway

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I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Rose Kennedy

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We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

Jason Williams

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I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

Denis O'Hare

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I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.

Doug Liman

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I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

Christina Aguilera

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The people are tired of these mainstream media outlets telling them who should be the boss, who should be the nominee, because it hasn't worked.

Corey Lewandowski

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If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.

Brett Hoebel

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Only being able to watch is the hardest thing for any footballer.

Arjen Robben

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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

Annie Besant

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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

William Godwin

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