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I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it. — Jaime Escalante

Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up. — Jaime Escalante

Better to go out to see the world one time with his own eyes, than to be burned alive with the plastic curtains. — Hugh Howey

You know what you call the two winners of that $580 million PowerBall lottery? ... Former Democrats — Jay Leno

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty. — Jaime Escalante

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again. — Publilius Syrus

I can do one 'Breaking Bad' in a night, or one 'Game of Thrones.' But 'House of Cards,' I can really do three in a night. I get sucked in. — Alysia Reiner

One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be. — Jaime Escalante

But, we fear what we don't understand, and I didn't understand the feelings I had for Blaine. — S.L. Jennings

As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture. — U.G. Krishnamurti

The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community. — Mary McAleese

Education is the ticket to success — Jaime Escalante

Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'. — Jaime Escalante

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am. — Claire Tomalin

If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion. — Jaime Escalante

It goes like this: teaching is touching life — Jaime Escalante

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise. — Abraham Lincoln

Ambition is greed without makeup. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government. — Ted Gup

You burros have calculus in your blood. — Jaime Escalante

Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them. — Kami Garcia

We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls. — G.K. Chesterton

I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught. — Karen M. McManus

Anger at injustice has righted more wrongs than most other things, and it is one of the great creative forces in a civilized society. — Anne Perry

"Ganas is all you need." — Jaime Escalante