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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
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it's all I've wanted to do. I did local plays and productions, local theater groups and anything that involved it. And then, I went and studied it, attended drama school and got my first lucky break in the theater in London, and just went from there.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to think big. At 15, I worked as a computer programmer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. After graduating, I attended Stanford for a degree in economics and computer science.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I have attended comic book conventions and met people that are die-hard fans; they'll come up and say, 'Clue' is my favorite movie of all time.' It has definitely resonated in some way with people and just continued to build up over the years considerably.
- Cheerfully
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. I attended the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1978 to 1984.
- Enrolled
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- Nov 07, 2020
The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music and drama very seriously and the teachers were just brilliant.
- Dive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Bellport, Long Island where I attended Gateway Acting School and met Robin Allan. She was the school's director who took me under her wing and was the one who told me that I could do this for real.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020