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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
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved writing, be it creative writing for school or just poetry. I just loved writing, and in college, I started really trying to write songs and was copying other artists, just to figure it out - but I think freshman year of high school is when I realized, 'I want to be a writer. I have something to say.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular.
- Racism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.
- Changes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to collective bargaining and expansions of school choice.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was frowned upon. But in the arts, resistance can often be the strongest inspiration.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020