Adora Svitak quote: "By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events."

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.
JESS WALTER

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
MAX CANNON

They're mostly there to tell jokes. In our group we get involved in current events and have programs...
JACK TEMPLETON

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has or...
BILL WATTERSON

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population...
NINA FEDOROFF

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When th...
ELIZA DUSHKU

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
RICK MERCER

I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep u...
HENRY ROLLINS

I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.
ERIK GRIFFIN

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
HENRY ROLLINS

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

How do the day’s event(s) compare with the famous quote you’ve picked to write about in So This ...
SAMUEL B. JONATHAN

In life, events change us. They define us. They leave scars to remind us of that time in our lives. ...
EMILY R. FOSTER

New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new med...
BEN HUH

My contention is that most students get distracted by music and social media because our current sta...
THOMAS FREY

Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their a...
ERIK QUALMAN

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and stay...
BOB FELLER

Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate socia...
MEGAN HILTY

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about cu...
HEATHER BROOKE

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics f...
ANNA CHLUMSKY

We want to focus on helping all students know they belong. The current events that are happening hav...
ASHLEY KELLEY

Remind me," Jubal said to her, "to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war....
DAVID HACKWORTH

We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do ...
ROBERT J. SHILLER

I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildr...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH

People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folk...
GARY LARSON

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
TONY ROBBINS

I'm naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven't really figured out how ...
HUNTER HAYES

We're not going to create (the right) system and culture for the current superstars, but we are buil...
STACEY ALLASTER

It's not your normal classroom setting; we sit around in a circle, where they have free range to tal...
KAREEM EVANS

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
VICTORIA JUSTICE

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and gran...
DAVID DEWHURST

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies...
JAVIER BARDEM

It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, cra...
M. J. ROSE

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the...
IGGY POP

It's quick recall of factual material and current events.
ERIC BOYD

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as w...
SIMON MAINWARING

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good busin...
STUART ROSE

Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fig...
ALAN J. PAKULA

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we ...
TONY ROBBINS

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?
SAMUEL M. SHOEMAKER

We get divided generationally and in other ways - libertarians versus more traditional social conser...
ASA HUTCHINSON

We're aware of the threat, and we have seen what a health care issue/threat can do to the event busi...
DAVID KORSE

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by...
PETER KREEFT

We are often asked by event planners and visiting media why Indianapolis is continually selected to ...
BOB SCHULTZ

As a young adult, we all go through things now on social media. It's a part of our everyday live...
JUSTINE SKYE

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
L. LIONEL KENDRICK

I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the ch...
NAOMI WOLF

Are we talking criteria for new events? Do we want events to wait six months? My concern is this, we...
DAVE HUCKABY

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and...
STEPHEN R. COVEY

We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it...
ED O'BRIEN

We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. ...
DENISE MINA

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient a...
PADDY ASHDOWN

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had...
RUSH LIMBAUGH

Her current version of events is inconsistent with the physical evidence,
TOM O'CONNOR

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more ...
BURNING SPEAR

Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'lik...
NEIL STRAUSS

1164At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto so...
GERMANY KENT

At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social...
GERMANY KENT

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should b...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Current organizations have served us well, but they are not going to get us to the next level where ...
ANTHONY TOPAZI

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that m...
EDWARD DE BONO

In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's eve...
PENELOPE CRUZ

Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one s...
BARACK OBAMA

Twitter and Tumblr and Vine and Instagram and Facebook and Myspace, all these things are social medi...
ALEC BALDWIN

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB

I think of events like the Challenger and 9/11 - events that move us so much that we never quite get...
KELLY MASTERSON

I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessari...
SAM HARRIS

Our recently published studies have suggested that when fragile red blood cells rupture and release ...
GREGORY KATO

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I ...
FAMKE JANSSEN

The secret of the movie is that it doesn't strain to draw parallels with current world events - beca...
ROGER EBERT

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's suc...
JAMIE BELL

Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is ...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
WARREN RUDMAN

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.
RAY BRADBURY

I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalisin...
REBECCA MACKINNON

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, thi...
MITCH MCCONNELL

We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're...
JESSICA ENNIS

I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
DAN HAWKINS

Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO

The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attenti...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI

What will happen if we go to 0 day?
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Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER

They should be required to be in less events; there should be less events for the women. It seems it...
JOHN MCENROE

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I...
RUPERT EVERETT

We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their h...
JACKIE SPEIER

We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates a...
JIM RENACCI

Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI

It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the soci...
BEN QUAYLE

The cool thing about Snapchat is you can get a lot of news on there now. There's CNN, ESPN, and ...
KLAY THOMPSON

Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that...
LEONA LEWIS

It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events...
JESSE KELLERMAN

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the event...
ANNE TYLER

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

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By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

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