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“How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.”

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Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

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I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.

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It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.

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Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

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People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.

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School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office,…

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In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want…

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When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

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I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps…

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“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course…

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I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but…

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“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick…

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The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it…

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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is…

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I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It…

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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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