Al Duncan Quotes

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

If you're going to miss 'em, miss 'em quick.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

First female referee can't play probably, either, right? But you're thinking the game like you know it? Okay, see ya.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

We have to live with it, sometimes these coincidences do happen. They are obviously huge losses but we will just have to get on as we are.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

You have to make your own chances.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

Hugs may come less frequently from someone with autism but when they do, you know it means everything.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.

Autism; It's not new just because you haven't heard of it until now.

Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.

Thousands of people die every year of cold, so if we had global warming it would save lives ... We ought to look out for people. The earth can take care of itself.

I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games.

The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?