- High
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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
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.
- Public Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.
- Bulletproof
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- Nov 07, 2020
After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.
- Business School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had studied at the NYU School of the Arts under Lloyd Richards, who also worked with the Negro Ensemble Company.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, all my friends' older brothers had these cars. I had a number of friends whose brothers collected Dodges and Plymouths and some of the coolest cars I've ever seen when I was a kid. I was just flabbergasted.
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020