School Quotes
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I'm really embracing that very out, very loud, very free persona that I am now but that I didn't get to be in high school.
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I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.
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Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
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I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.
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All children should be in school and not out protesting and anyone who says otherwise is being very irresponsible.
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All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.
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I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
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As a kid, I would always shop for my back-to-school clothes at department stores. I lived in a small town, and department stores were all we had access to.
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You ever buy a book and not read it? You feel almost guilty having it up on a bookshelf. People are like, "Hey, how's that book?" "I haven't read it." "Oh, did you just buy it?" "I've had it since high school." "Well, can I borrow it?" "No."
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I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '
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For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.
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Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.
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Many more schools can be outstanding.
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Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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I've been spoiled being in the fashion business. My son will be like, 'Mommy, 20 new pairs of shoes came today. How come?' Because I'm always telling him it's not normal to have 20 pairs of tennis shoes to try on before school.
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I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.
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I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.
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I think, for some children, your skills don't lie in written words. A lot of school is based around written words and how good you are at spelling or reading. From a young age, if you're told you can't spell or read very well, you're made to feel a bit stupid.
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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
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I study harder now than I ever did in college or high school. There's just so much pressure to know what's going on, and I feel like, especially with social media, there's always new information coming out on the teams, the players, the coaches, and the games. You can never be fully read enough, and I'm just constantly reading articles, watching games, and trying to read blogs.
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I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.
