Quotes with school-masters

Quotes 201 till 220 of 360.

  • Bram Cohen My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Bill Cosby My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Blake Bailey My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.
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  • Barbara Cooney My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Ajay Naidu My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Bria Skonberg My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bonnie Bedelia My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Breckin Meyer My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!
    Breckin Meyer
    American actor, writer, producer, and drummer (1974 - )
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  • Barry Larkin My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Ben Affleck My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Ben Barnes My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Barbara Park My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Betsy Brandt My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Adele My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
    The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Ellen Glasgow No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Bob Riley No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Ad Reinhardt Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
    Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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