"It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving."
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Maya Angelou on Learning"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
Albert Einstein on Learning"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Learning"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Mahatma Gandhi on Learning"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."
Earl Nightingale on Learning"Artists walk alone."
"Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area."
"It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience."
"Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return."
"The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims."