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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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I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.
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I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.
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I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.
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Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
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I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.
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I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'
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Social media isn't as quaint as it was when I started my Livejournal back in high school.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I was that guy who was trying to be cool with everybody, but I never really had a core group of friends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.
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- Nov 07, 2020