Martin Lewis Perl Quotes

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

Martin Lewis Perl

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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.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • School
  • Present

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • School
  • Prepared
  • Degree

• Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Myself
  • London

• This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Right
  • Police
  • Dangerous

• We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • School
  • Africa
  • Canada

• As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • School
  • High
  • Service

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • School
  • High
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Me
  • Serious
  • Become

• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  

  Oliver North
  • Country
  • School
  • War

• I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • School
  • Acting
  • Doing

• When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

  

  Brad Holland
  • Thinking
  • School
  • High

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Mom
  • Talent

• I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

  

  Joan Kirner

• A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

  

  Martin Lewis Perl
  • School
  • Serious
  • Police