School Quotes
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I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad.
Maya Hawke
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I failed the audition to get into drama school.
Peter Capaldi
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In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.
Boots Riley
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In school, I did a lot of computer work. I'd take splices from Kurt Weill songs and loop them in bars, in beats of seven, trying all different kinds of things.
Jason Moran
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I was a high school throw-out.
Alan King
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I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realised... just go and do it, stop being a knob.
Claire Foy
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This morning on Dartford station a guy I knew at primary school came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry made. He is called Mick Jagger.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.
Matthew Nable
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He wants to spend more on education and other issues. We think we need to spend more on education. But those dollars need to go directly to those school districts and not bureaucracies, ... Late Edition.
Dennis Hastert
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Going to school was an absolute terror for me for, like, a decade.
Jonathan Van Ness
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Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.
John Caudwell
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I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.
Anne Donovan
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You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.
Carolyn Kizer
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People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.
Kanye West
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In the Deep South, the unequal distribution of school funds based on Negroes’ “mental inferiority” was one way the caste system maintained itself through the generations. “Inferior” students got inferior schools, but truly, it was the inferior schools that created the inferior students. The two years of study resulted in the book Deep South, a seminal book in modern anthropology.
Alison Stewart
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My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
Aisha Tyler
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In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my belief that the time had come for fruitful interactions between the new discipline of Cell Biology and the traditional fields of interest of medical schools, namely Pathology and Clinical Medicine.
George Emil Palade
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School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.
Antony Beevor
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Follow me and do exactly what the song says Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people And drink and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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I'll just say it: I'm not the sharpest tool in the box. Being forced to go back to school is still a fear of mine.
Will Poulter
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Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
Jeb Bush
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In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.
Joe Garcia
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Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
John Matuszak
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Being in the movie School of Rock was really cool. Sometimes we had to do takes over, but Jack always kept us going. He was fun.
Miranda Cosgrove