Interviewees Quotes & Sayings

In addition to labeling kids who learn differently as problematic, sometimes defective, most schools classify, track, and categorize students from very early ages. As an abundance of research studies confirm, these classifications tend to become self-perpetuating and self-confirming. My interviewees illuminate the ways in which grades, tests, and opportunities to learn are often arbitrary or related to class, race, and gender. In the supposed meritocracy of schooling, these markers and estimations have profound impact, not just structuring how we fit into the learning hierarchy of an individual classroom, but who we are who whom we believe we will become. — Kirsten Olson

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible. — Daisaku Ikeda

Thank God for your daily bread.
God is all sufficient and great provider. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Vivi likes you so it's not like I had to beg her to help. She's got an angelic face and she melts hearts with her smile - which means that she's pretty much the most badass sidekick of all time. — Ella Fox

Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ... They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news. — Gloria Steinem

I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too. — Dita Von Teese

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much. — Matt Dillon

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. — Edmund Burke

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them. — Phyllis George

My country right or wrong is like saying my mother drunk or sober. G.K.Chesterton This is one of my favorite quotes and would bring about world peace if more knew and lived it. — Wayne Costigan

Lord thank you for granting us right words to speak and write at the right time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up. — David Frost

She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought. — Guy De Maupassant

You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms
those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything. — Alice Hoffman

The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body. — Aristotle.

When your kids get excited, let them have that feeling and share the excitement with them. Sharing makes it bigger. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

When I was a child, I used to eat sugar Frosted Flakes with chocolate milk, but I digest, I mean digress. — Stephen Furst

People are not impressed by watching interviewees cry. People recognize chat shows with personalities as the trivial things that they are. They're not designed to be deep. Quite frankly, people in show business don't stand up to in-depth scrutiny. — Terry Wogan

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't. — Ruby Wax

Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided. — Thomas Jefferson