- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
School Quotes
On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.
These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn't know what I was doing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn't prepared myself to be an actor.
- Immune
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Congress can strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over school prayer cases, there is no provision in the Constitution immune from congressional tampering.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
School prayer, abortion, and school busing are indeed controversial issues. I doubt that there ever will be complete agreement on the public-policy questions they raise.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like 'Gladiator.' I like 'The Dark Knight.' I really liked, when I was a kid, 'U.S. Marshalls.' I like funny movies, too. 'Old School' and 'The Hangover.' 'The Hangover' was up there; I liked it.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.
- Pretend
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- Nov 07, 2020
We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't a lot of entertainment-based mediums, the visual or recorded mediums, that empower the audience to go off the next day and create it themselves. You can't watch a movie or a show and the next day say, 'I want to make that.' You have to go to school.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020