School Quotes
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The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
Ivan Illich -
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.
Joseph DeRisi
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I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.
Bernie Sanders -
I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.
Amy Heckerling -
In sixth and seventh grade, my two best friends and I pretended to be horses. Every day after school, we would gallop around, whinnying and stamping our hooves and tossing our manes - for hours.
Tyne Daly -
I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.'
Jennie Garth -
Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.
Lois Capps -
My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.
George Foreman
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My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.
Reinhard Selten -
I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.
Mitch Kapor -
I think old school TV shows helped in raising your kids and helped in the way things should be done. Now you just see kids disrespecting their parents, you see kids cursing and all kind of things that shouldn't be done.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin -
I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
Sara Canning -
I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.
Jimmy Carter -
I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
Sara Canning
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Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there's a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the media will show the firefight even though the school is way more important and will affect the community for much longer.
Sebastian Junger -
My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'
Geoffrey Rush -
I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.
Norah O'Donnell -
Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.
LeBron James -
My parents were more surprised that I wanted to go away for school than anything. They didn't really understand the benefits.
Jennine Capó Crucet -
I think I'm like that nerdy dad from middle school who always has a video camera, but in the same respect, I only take it out during interesting occasions.
Casey Neistat
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For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.
Jonathan Levine -
A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.
Michael Pitt -
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.
Rita Levi-Montalcini -
After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.
Anand Mahindra