Quotes with school

Quotes 161 till 180 of 317.

  • Barbra Streisand Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bubba Watson Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Billy Collins Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bjork Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Al Stewart Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Barry Humphries Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Billy Bragg Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Burton Cummings My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Bobby Moynihan My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Brendan Coyle My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Bob Balaban My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Brendan Myers My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bella Thorne My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • 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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