Quotes with school-masters

Quotes 121 till 140 of 360.

  • Anthony Holden I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Iain Banks I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Arthur Golden I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Adam Clayton I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Alonzo Church I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Stephen Hawking I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Brooke Shields I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bryce Harper I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bernard Beckett I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Buck Owens I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Busy Philipps I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Yogi Berra I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Beck I'm not good at the protocols of dating. I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were dating-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
    Jane magazine, April 2000
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bailee Madison I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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