George Smoot Quotes

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

George Smoot

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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 was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.

Edgar Wright
- School
- Art
- Design
I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

Idris Elba
- School
- Bad
- Never
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

Karolyn Grimes
- School
- Help
- High
A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.

Tahl Raz
- Why
- May
- Focus
I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

Damien Chazelle
- School
- High
- Start