School Quotes
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Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
Katherine Dunn
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Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there's show tunes and fart noises.
Darby Stanchfield
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'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
Jeff Hawkins
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I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.
Jacqueline Emerson
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Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
Camille Paglia
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Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
P. Chidambaram
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In high school and college, I was an athlete.
David Duchovny
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At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these applicants are from all over the country, and admissions officers need ways to sort through them. The SAT is just one of those things.
Jonathan Grayer
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Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.
Tony Danza
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It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
Jacki Weaver
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I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because I didn't want anyone to hear me play. But then I'd do a big show in school where everyone would see me, and that was actually alright.
Jessie Buckley
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I went to graduate school in Iowa City, at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where the most passionate thing I did was attend University of Iowa basketball games.
David Shields
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I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
Oprah Winfrey
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
Barbra Streisand
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All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom.
Amy Purdy
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I started playing football in a school back in Sao Vicente when I was five years old, going towards six. Those were my first steps, among those kids, and then I kept going.
Neymar
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I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.
Christina Ricci
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We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.
Donna Brazile
