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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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- Nov 07, 2020
I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.
- Leaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
- Creativity
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I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.
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I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.
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I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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I've had a hard life. I smell and sense fear. I didn't get that from Catholic school; I know what fear is.
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I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.
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In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only time I only really made out with a girl in high school, my mom caught me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't leave home until we graduated high school, but when we did, we genuinely left. We went out into the world with 50 bucks, backpacks, and acoustic guitars.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son is 6. I wouldn't let my six-year-old son near any football field. And if any coach asks my son to play football, I'll sue that coach, and I'll sue the school.
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- Nov 07, 2020