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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
The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.
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I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
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I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.
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I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.
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Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths.
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A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.
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I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
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I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never able to apply to a decent college because I had no math, no science - I was allowed to just paint all day and write.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people in Chicago that I miss. I was there one year out of high school. So I basically grew up there.
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Even in high school, when I had injuries, I tried to play with them. When I shouldn't have worked out, I worked out.
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- Nov 07, 2020