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High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative:… — Dave Eggers
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one. — Brian Eno
He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. — Frantz Fanon
You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming. — Will Ferrell
I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say. — Davy Jones
More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant… — Jay Leno
There is no such thing as a reluctant star. — George Michael
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a… — Reinhold Niebuhr
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and… — James Patterson
It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant… — Michelle Pfeiffer
People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what… — Queen Rania of Jordan
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things. — Sally Ride
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it… — Rick Riordan
Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live… — Charles Schumer
The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading… — Francis Collins
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied… — Edward de Bono
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It… — Franz Kafka
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. — Don DeLillo
I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a… — George Bernard Shaw
I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to… — Ernest Hemingway
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. — Deepak Chopra
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the… — Dave Barry
Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs… — Arundhati Roy
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to… — Kurt Vonnegut

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