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- Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done. -- Rafe Martin
- I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges' youthful beginnings. -- J. K. Rowling
- My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. -- Thom Gunn
- My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated. -- Anton du Beke
- My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle. -- Jonathan Kozol
- I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. -- Mark Ruffalo
- I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school. -- Tyler Labine
- When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it. -- Alan Alda
- I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet. -- Howard Stringer
- Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places. -- Taylor Mali
- When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart. -- James Altucher
- I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic. -- Kevin Spacey
- I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up. -- Tony Dungy
- I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello. -- Anthony Holden
- I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics. -- Tony Benn
- I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano. -- Carla Bley
- As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. -- Margaret Mead
- It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything. -- Zooey Deschanel
- When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice. -- Cecilia Bartoli
- I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was. -- Dev Hynes
- I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?' -- Tom Hiddleston
- I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it. -- Brian Jacques
- Old teachers never die, they just grade away. -- Henny Youngman
- When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold. -- Robert Frost
- I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent. -- Victor LaValle
- I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper. -- Killer Mike
- Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents. -- Alister E. McGrath
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