Mark Takano famous quotes

You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
-- Mark Takano

#Thinking #Want #Way

I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.
-- Mark Takano

#Running #Country #Thinking

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
-- Mark Takano

#School #Writing #Years

We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.
-- Mark Takano

#Mean #Together #Way

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

To justify God's ways to man.

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?

She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.