- Church
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a terrible student, but I never missed a music class. In fact, I don't even think I attended most of my gen-ed classes, but I never missed a single music class.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have attended dandiya events in Ahmedabad, and I must say the energy level of the city during that season is amazing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'The Noonday Demon' turned me into a professional depressive, which is a weird thing to be. A class at the university I attended assigns the book and invited me to be a guest lecturer.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's kids have a mind of their own, and they know how to exercise it. Even if I wanted to tell Sara or my son Ibrahim how to lead their lives - which I don't - they would not listen to me. Luckily, Sara chose to complete her studies before pursuing acting. She attended Columbia University and then devoted her attention to Bollywood.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.
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- Nov 07, 2020