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“What about those [Donald] Trump supporters out there and we've seen several incidents of this, with racially-charged intimidation of students and things like that? Doesn't President-Elect Trump have some responsibility to say something about that?”

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Author:George Stephanopoulos

“When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, "She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too," then I feel like my time has been well spent.”

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Author:Kate DiCamillo

“Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time, it is important to note that, except for his first two years, which were a missed opportunity, President [Barack] Obama faced rabid opposition from the Republicans.”

“The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.”

“You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.”

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Author:Chris Hart

“When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.”

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Author:Julianne Malveaux

“No matter what Tucker Carlson tried - no matter what logic, the law, no matter what he tried - he could not disabuse this student of the idea that we can't survive as a country doing that and that the country must have borders and that a country must determine who gets in and who does not.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditations on the boulders.”

Meditation Tree Students Bunch Boulders

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment.”

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Author:Pauline Oliveros

“[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.”

Meditation Students Ensemble

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.”

Thinking Play School Common Students Exceptional Common Things

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.”

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Author:Alice Mattison

“I think we at the faculty level have to model this behavior of having people that really truly disagree with one another be able to discuss those beliefs with one another at the level of discussion and argument and not at the level of, you know, personal attack so that our students can learn how to do that, too.”

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Author:Mark Schlissel

“I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.”

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Author:Lynne Rae Perkins

“What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“[James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.”

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Author:Michele Flournoy

“Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and satisfying. I have treated everyday as the University education I never had and think I learnt more about business and life than I would have at University in the process.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later call several years later Black Powerites, Black nationalists, progressives coming out of the Black freedom struggle, the northern students' movement, people - students, young people, professionals, workers, who were dedicated to Black activism and militancy, but outside of the context of Islam.”

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Author:Manning Marable

“They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom fighters can get jobs that student sit-ins can't get. They can go and sleep and live in hotels that Martin Luther King himself can't live in.They are recognized and respected because they are fighters, not because they are sit-iners or freedom.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!”

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Author:Malcolm X

“You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.”

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Author:Paul Kengor

“I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.”

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Author:Paula Broadwell

“If you're one of the millions of people who have student debt right now, I'll help you refinance your loans at better rates.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“The Nike swash that cost $30 and was designed by a Portland State University art student was probably worth that when she first showed it to them. At that point it had no equity at all. None of the guys commissioning it particularly liked it, they all wanted the Adidas three stripes and they thought that was a good logo.”

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Author:Michael Bierut

“I got a job as the Visuals Art's Teacher at my Alma Mata, St. Mary's College. Then my interests shifted to animation. Ironically, it was one of my students who sparked this energy in me by introducing me to an animation program called FLASH. So I dabbled and played around with it.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“Many of my students learn different techniques online and I have learnt a lot using this medium. Art is picking up in the Caribbean but it's unfortunate that we still have people looking down on it. Many persons who don't know better think that having a career in art is a waste of time. I guess the public just needs to be educated some more.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“I went back and studied the game, was a student of the game and worked on my craft and dedicated myself, you know? A lot of my music revolves around me growing up in Compton. I want to tell a different story that's never been told before, of a good kid in a mad city.”

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Author:Kendrick Lamar

“What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no Jewish faculty there.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.”

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Author:Neil Young

“I've had some parents ask me to do private birthday parties for their students, which I can't do, but it's an honor that they even ask. I love the feedback I get from parents on my music, it's so awesome.”

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Author:Raheem Jarbo

“I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.”

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Author:Raheem Jarbo

“Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.”

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Author:Raheem Jarbo

“I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.”

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Author:Billy Eichner

“That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.”

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Author:Kevin Sessums

“There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.”

“You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.”

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Author:Kathy Bates

“There is a much bigger issue with student loan rates, the cost of tuition; those are some huge problems that need to be resolved.”

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Author:Alexis Ohanian

“Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.”

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Author:Alexis Ohanian

“We have a text before us, an ancient text, a living text, and we try to enter it, not only to decipher it, but to penetrate it, to become part of it, similar to the way every student becomes part of a teacher's texture. That's how I see our [with Frank Moore Cross] two differing approaches.”

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Author:Hershel Shanks

“I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.”

Students Theological

Author:Frank Moore Cross

“Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.”

Students Findings Concerned

Author:Elie Wiesel

“If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.”

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Author:Alexis Ohanian

“An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "”

“[Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he probably met a lot of black students there who were also probably lonely. I think he formed friendships with them, which established his judgement about the question of colour. That’s my theory. I don’t know whether it’s right or not, but that’s what I always respected about Malcolm. He was absolutely, totally impeccable on the question of race and colour.”

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Author:Bob Hawke

“I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.”

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Author:Nat Hentoff

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