Quotes with public-school

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  • Ban Ki-moon One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bryan Callen One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that I'm not beholding to some public entity.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Anna Lindh One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Bobby Scott One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Adrian Cronauer One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Anita Hill One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bram Cohen One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.
    Source: Bram Cohen: Creator of BitTorrent, WrongPlanet.net, undated; accessed March 9, 2006, 17:01 (UTC)
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Curtis Carlson Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Allan Bloom Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Walter Benjamin Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Hannah Arendt Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods - moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former - but no opinion.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • A. Whitney Brown Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Will Rogers Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Caio Fonseca Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Buzz Aldrin People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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