- Hopeless
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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
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
- Numbers
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.
- Educations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I realized what was happening, everything blew up. I made 'Animals' when I was in high school, and literally, from that moment, I've been living a different life. I've been touring a lot, traveling a lot, doing great shows. I've been in the studio with my biggest idols.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020