- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I entered Harvard in 1965 not really knowing what I wanted to do. This confusion seems to have lost me a fellowship. G. D. Searle and Company, the pharmaceutical firm, had their home office in Skokie, and they gave a fellowship each year to a graduate from my high school that was going to major in science in college.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on the presentation of moral issues in various Greek and Roman tragedies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be a student in Rabindranath Tagore's school in Santiniketan in around 1915, dancing in the dance-dramas he wrote.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find so often, you know, just on a very mundane level; you've got a meeting and your child's acting in a school play. You can't do both things. And it's not simply that you can't do both, but whatever you do, you're going to be neglecting something that's really important.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My old school hip-hop would probably consist of Bad N-Fluenz, The Dangerous Crew, Seagrams, Mr. ILL, RBL Posse, Rappin' 4-Tay.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went so far with school, so I might as well just finish. Getting my degree is something I'll be really happy about.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my comrades, and as soon as I appeared in the school yard, I was surrounded by young friends, most of them bigger than I, but who were quite willing to give the appearance of disciples; they would have defended me furiously if necessary.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal for the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign is to create systemic change across all school systems. I want there to be diverse books that reflect the lives of every person, regardless of whether or not they are in the majority.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I told my trainer Keith I wanted to be the No. 1 player in the country and the No. 1 draft pick.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always taught at medical school that you should never do a test unless you could do something with the result.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.
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- Nov 07, 2020