School Quotes
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When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.
Martin O'Malley
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They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?
Heather Matarazzo
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I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.
Piper Perabo
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I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.
Kelly Preston
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I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.
Laurence Yep
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I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
Ava DuVernay
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I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.
Lupita Nyong'o
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I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'
Denis Leary
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When I went to school, it was to be an electrical engineer. I graduated with a degree in industrial management and worked in trucking for a couple of years. Then I decided that I was bored with the trucking industry and that I would go back to graduate school.
Jeryl Prescott
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I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'
Andrew Sean Greer
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I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
Aimee Mullins
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I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.
Chad Lindberg
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I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.
Blake Lively
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Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.
Chester Middlebrook Pierce
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Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.
Claire Tomalin
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I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
Loudon Wainwright III
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I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.
Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
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I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.
Darrell Lance Abbott
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Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now.
Freddie Wong
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I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.
Ann Dowd
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I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.
Cory Monteith
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I'm a very big public school advocate.
Cynthia Nixon
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We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.
William O. Douglas
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I was probably not the first to lose my virginity among my friends. I was definitely one of the last ones to reach puberty - I didn't grow until the last couple years of high school.
Simon Baker