Marne Levine Quotes
When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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Baseball is a team game.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
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I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.
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When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'
