Quotes with public-school

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  • John Updike School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Blake Anderson See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Florence King Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Marquis de Sade So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
    Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales
    Member of the British royal family, first wife of Prince Charles (1961 - 1997)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bud Grant Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bill Dedman State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Albert Speer Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Beatrix Potter Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Oscar Wilde That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
    Source: An Ideal Husband
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bob Saget That would be a good public service announcement for Nickelodeon: Hi, this is Bob Saget. Don't fuck that shit. Stay in school. And read!
    Source: Bob Saget: That Aint Right (2007)
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Evelyn Waugh That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Marilyn Monroe The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Barry Diller The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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