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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
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.
- Graduates
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- Nov 07, 2020
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
- Exhibit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to school, everybody expected you to be Stephanie Tanner. Establishing a separate entity from Stephanie after all those years, I did everything I could in the beginning to be everything but Stephanie Tanner.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn't really figure out why. Then I got into college and started messing around with photography, and I realised that it was about getting the images that were in my head out in a way that didn't have to be spelt correctly.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along with other parents, demanded a curriculum change.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020