School Quotes
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
Barbara Castle
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The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.
Milton Berle
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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
Ban Ki-moon
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I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?
Al Roker
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I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.
Lena Waithe
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And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.
James T. Walsh
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School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.
KSI
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I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.
Jonathan Winters
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I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
Idina Menzel
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The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.
Scott Cohen
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I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
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I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
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I haven't learned anything new on guitar since high school. And I think it's time to learn something.
Jill Sobule
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Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.
David A. R. White
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All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.
Anne-Marie
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I wasn't allowed to do commercials. I wasn't allowed to do TV series. I wasn't allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.
Keira Knightley
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I started to sing after high school, and I may have dreamed about being Randy Travis a time or two.
Cole Swindell
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The Pledge of Allegiance, ultimately, is coffee for elementary school students. '...And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. FUCK, I'm at SCHOOL! Can we say it again? I need a second cup.'
Lewis Black
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Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.
Pico Iyer
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My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis.
Kumail Nanjiani
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My biggest advice for high school girls is to not take yourself so seriously.
Jillian Rose Reed
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I moved from Minnesota to Las Vegas when I was 13, so I spent my high school years there and did some things I'm not proud of.
Beth Riesgraf
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I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.
Joe Frazier