School Quotes
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We are deeply concerned, both in our country and here, of the very large number of dropouts by schoolchildren. This is a very disturbing situation, because the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow... try as much as possible to remain in school, because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use.
Nelson Mandela
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One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.
Thomas Sowell
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I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.
Simon Mawer
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I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.
Carrot Top
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School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
Ken Robinson
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The only thing that separated the so-called real world from high school was a locker combination.
Susan McBride
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I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.
Will Ferrell
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To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.
Michael Biehn
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I have always loved going to school.
Rudolph A. Marcus
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School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.
Troy Garity
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A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, 'My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch 'Modern Family.'
Eric Stonestreet
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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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I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.
Cate Blanchett
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I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
Chris Hughes
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I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.
Paul Newman
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats
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Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.
Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
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If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.
Ethan Embry
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In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.
Neal Barnard
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I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
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We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.
John Mellencamp
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Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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I'm not deeply involved in politics, but about 25% of the people I interact with in politics went to law school.
Brad Feld
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I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.
Michael Steger