School Quotes
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I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or some kind of teaching of art, because I feel like art is a more free area in school than music is. I feel like music is too mathematic for me. Music school's so hard. It's math.
James Edward Olliges Jr. -
I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called 'roof ball.' We'd play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time.
Andrew Luck
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It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you're intimidated by or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day.
John Krasinski -
They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I’m awesome. But the truth is that I’ve been awesome, and then I got this role.
Gabourey Sidibe -
They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.
John Madden -
I never got along in school, really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.
John Waters -
I was a good student, but I didn't like school.
Ashley Benson -
I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.
Elif Batuman
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I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.
Donald Hall -
I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, "You take a lot for granted." Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
William James -
Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard -
The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that appealed to me and constituted its Russianness for me was that it was simultaneously incredibly funny and sad.
Elif Batuman -
In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.
Marcia Gay Harden
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The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
Max Stirner -
I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.
Jake Epstein -
School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
Clint Smith -
To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.
Ernest L. Boyer -
The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.
Alessia Cara -
When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.
Paula Poundstone
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In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.
Kristen Schaal -
The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.
George H. Brimhall -
Going to school was an absolute terror for me for, like, a decade.
Jonathan Van Ness -
I really was bullied badly in school.
Jessie James Decker