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I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
Franz Boas

Mind, May, Whatever

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
John Sexton

Work, Him, Point

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
John Sexton

Experience, Reason, Learn

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
James Franco

Year, Film, Next

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
Kamisese Mara

Faith, Family, Law

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.
Ricky Martin

Nature, Children, Lie

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.
Ricky Martin

Faith, Beautiful, Someone

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
Shannon Miller

Help, Possible, Exercise

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
James Weldon Johnson

Music, Best, Through

I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.
Stephen Moyer

Children, Afraid, Kids

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
Niklaus Wirth

Teacher, Simple, Rather

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.
Marguerite Young

Time, Women, Writing

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Art, Process, Potential

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.
Simon Newcomb

Family, Beginning, Found

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.
Andrew Greeley

Women, God, Men

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
Timothy Radcliffe

Respect, Today, Moral

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
Timothy Radcliffe

Her, Moral, She

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
Taryn Manning

Hope, Happy, Through

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.
Ellen Pompeo

Famous, Nothing, Rich

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
Al Green

Success, Stupid, Before

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
Mary Wesley

Understand, Write, Looking

I had great friends, support and teaching at Wake Forest.
Tim Duncan

Great, Friends, Support

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.
Hugh Grant

Home, Nothing, Before

What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.
Claire McCaskill

Done, Creativity, Child

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.
Azar Nafisi

Passion, Books, Literature

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.
Azar Nafisi

Revolution, Against, Rules

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
Jon Porter

Work, Law, College

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
Brian De Palma

School, Real, Give

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
Harri Holkeri

Change, May, Living

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
Princess Margaret

Marriage, Christian, Before

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