Jonathan LaPaglia Quotes

When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

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• When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • War
  • Civil War

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • School
  • Girl
  • Lipstick

• The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • Money
  • American

• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

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

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • School
  • Africa
  • Canada

• School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • School
  • Law
  • Day

• 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

• A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Happy
  • Language
  • Body

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • School
  • Positive
  • Theatre

• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • High
  • Violence

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • Father

• Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • School
  • High
  • Free

• I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • High
  • Singing

• I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• If Russia wants to use energy as a weapon against our friends and allies, let's use our resources to set them free.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Friends
  • Free
  • Energy

• As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Doing
  • Parent

• When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

  

  Jonathan LaPaglia
  • School