Naomi Campbell Quotes
I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
-
We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
-
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.
-
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
-
I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
-
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
-
It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.
-
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.
-
I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
-
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.
-
In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
-
I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
-
Competing in London would be a dream come true.
-
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
-
I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
-
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.
-
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
-
I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.
-
My mom passed down to me her old Levi's denim jacket. When I left it on a plane, I was devastated. I've never been able to find anything with quite the same cool, faded look.
-
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
-
I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.
-
When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.
-
I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
