- Music
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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
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.
- Drop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did drop out of school.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.
- Civil Rights Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love old school rock and roll.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020