School Quotes
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I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.
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Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.
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In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved.
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When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.
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I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river.
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I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
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Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.
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I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.
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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.
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I didn't take school seriously.
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I think the board and the school are really wanting not to forgo the historic mission, which is to train Christian leaders, but also to prepare students to carry out their ministry in the context of the world as it is today and to prepare them for contemporary situations.
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High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.
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What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.
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I don't think everyone is equally haunted by high school, but I also don't think it's unusual to be.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie.
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People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.
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My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.
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Since the Court took God our of our schools, we've gotten exactly what we should expect: godless schools.
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Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.
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Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.
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I always think of young Hollywood as its own little high school. There are the girls who have been working for a while that are kind of like the Queen Bees and the new kids at 'school' just starting out.
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If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.
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I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to law school because I didn't know how to earn a living otherwise. I tried to ignore the pull, but it wouldn't let me.
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I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.
