Kevin McCarthy Quotes

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• 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

• In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • School
  • Done
  • Studying

• I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • School
  • Love
  • Remember

• 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

• If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Believe
  • School
  • Kids

• I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Forever

• 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

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • School
  • Remember

• I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • School
  • Couple
  • Learn

• I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • School
  • Money

• 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.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • School
  • Book

• I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • School
  • Like
  • Discipline

• Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • School
  • High

• Everyone at school knew who my dad was. It made me a little self-conscious a little introverted because I had a lot of attention drawn towards me, but in a way I guess it gives you a little bit of a celebrity skin, even though I wasn't a celebrity.

  

  James McCartney
  • School
  • Dad
  • Attention

• My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.

  

  David Weinberger

• I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • School
  • Home
  • Father

• I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • School