- Practice
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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
- Graduation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.
- Nov 07, 2020
I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school in Tanzania for two years, from five to seven. I started off in my mother's school with a lot of African children - but then I was put into the international school.
- Entertain
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started listening to old school R&B artists like Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, and Donny Hathaway when I was in 6th grade.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the U.S., I'd siloed off my identities. While I was an Indian at home, I was an American at school. I have now embraced both the identities.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.
- Adequately
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- Nov 07, 2020