Quotes with school

Quotes 101 till 120 of 317.

  • Adlai Stevenson I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
    Adlai Stevenson
    American politician and vice president (1835 - 1914)
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  • Ann Bancroft I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Albert Maltz I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Anthony Doerr I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Woody Allen I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Henry Fielding I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bryan Fuller I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • 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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