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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage. – Ziggy Marley

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power. – Tom Brown, Jr.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it. – Anna Deavere Smith

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity. – Steven Chu

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year. – Darrell Royal

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. – Christa McAuliffe

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. – Allan Bloom

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen. – Renee Fleming

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 want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life. – Jet Li

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. – Mark Ruffalo

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. – Josef Albers

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. – Yo-Yo Ma

I was an elementary school teacher. – Luciano Pavarotti

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play. – Buddy Rich

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. – Antonio Tabucchi

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

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. – Norman MacCaig

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher. – Karlie Kloss