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Brad Cohen: I get that look a lot, but I never let it get to me.
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Recruiter: What made you decide to go into teaching?
Brad Cohen: It's all I've ever wanted to do. I feel like I was born to teach.
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Brad Cohen: Maybe we should talk about the elephant.
Recruiter: Elephant?
Brad Cohen: In the room: my Tourette's.
Recruiter: No. The Americans with Disabilities Act doesn't allow me to ask you...
Brad Cohen: I know, but I'd like to tell you just like I tell the kids in my classes. See, I explain to them that it's a brain thing that causes me to make strange noises, they're like sneezes, irrepressible. When you have to, you have to.
Recruiter: How do they react?
Brad Cohen: Once they understand, they're fine with it. It's never caused any problems in a classroom.
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Brad Cohen: I was running out of time and money... and hope.
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Diane: Your Dad built his business with his own two hands you can't blame him for wanting you to be a part of it.
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Brad Cohen: Still, my Constant Companion, as always, warned me not to get my hopes up. But hope is a hard habit to break.
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Brad Cohen: It's hard to be patient when you feel as though you've blown your last chance.
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Jim Ovbey: Hilarie and I discussed you with the teachers. And, we talked about how proud we are of teaching our kids to never let anything hold them back in life. And, Hilarie said that if we're gonna talk the talk, we need to walk the walk.
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Brad Cohen: Well. Right now there's no medicine that can cure Tourette's. But, it's okay. Cuz I've learned to accept it and I don't let it run my life.
Front of the Class Quotes
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Lolita 2022-03-19 09:01:09
This movie touched me not because the protagonist is still aspiring despite his disability, but because a society respects and tolerates the disability. Without him, the principal of elementary school would not have Cohen chasing his dreams in the future. Some schools are willing to ask him to be a teacher. Parents can safely put their children in his class. The children respect him. The tolerance of these silent people makes me extremely moved.
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Cary 2022-03-19 09:01:09
This movie gave me great confidence in a patient with Tourette's disease for more than ten years
