Joan Ganz Cooney quotes
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“Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.”
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“In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'”
-- Joan Ganz CooneySource : "Q&A with Sesame Workshop Founder Joan Ganz Cooney". Interview with Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. February 3, 2009.
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“The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!”
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“Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.”
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“There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.”
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“I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.”
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“It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.”
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“It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.”
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Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.
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“Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.”
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“The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.”
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“A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence”
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“I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.”
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