- Look
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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
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to rugby, I'm a Welshman through and through. I'm a huge fan; I've played rugby since I was seven. Unfortunately, I had to quit when I went to drama school because it doesn't really go hand in had with being an actor.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school desegregation rulings - political power is challenged as well.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school for audio engineering, and I was around a lot of sound engineers over the summers in New York, so I'm pretty comfortable in engineering my own stuff.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up producing hip-hop music, actually. I was producing for my friends, who were all rappers in upstate New York, where I'm from. But in the eighth grade, we had this songwriting contest in our school, and I got really excited about it and actually won. After that, I just kept making music forever.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Betty Moore when she entered Mitchell High School as a freshman, and that was it - period, exclamation point!
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020