- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attended Quotes
On school, events, and what we've attended.
These quotes use 'attended' in different senses, schools completed, events experienced alongside a professional partner, and consequences that quietly follow certain excesses. A few reflect on formal Education and how much of it actually shapes a person.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never attended any acting school, though I've done theatre workshops a couple of times, and it has been an extremely enriching experience. But beyond that, I don't want to acquire the skills of acting and use them on camera. I'd rather learn on the job.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first We Day celebration I attended was in Vancouver, and it was the most incredible experience - there is nothing more invigorating than a buzzing room of young people who are excited to change the world.
- Crowd
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was only against my mother's will that I attended the preparatory high school in the city. She wanted me to become a seamstress in the village. She knew that if I moved to the city, I would become corrupted. And I was. I started to read books.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1960s, as a rising defense intellectual, Kissinger was a Nelson Rockefeller man, firmly entrenched in the center-right establishment. When he attended the infamous 1964 Republican convention in San Francisco, he was horrified by Goldwater supporters, whom he likened to fascists.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.
- Elementary School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.
- Cries
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- Nov 07, 2020
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
- Drank
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- Nov 07, 2020
In December 2014, Uber held its annual holiday party on an unfurnished floor at its swank, mood-lit headquarters in San Francisco. Employees and investors attended in flamboyant attire from the Roaring '20s and drank at an open bar into the early morning hours.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended speech and drama classes with a nun to help me gain confidence in speaking without my face turning red each time.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020