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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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore.
- Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.
- Heavy Weights
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly, I was into powerlifting when I was in high school. And I just continued to train the same way I was taught - to powerlift. Once I started doing bodybuilding, there were no real differences, just different exercises. A different way of training with more repetitions, but it was still the same lifting of very heavy weights to get stronger.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.
- Governor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned a lot in life, travelling, living abroad, just in the school of life.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I started watching 'Trek' in the mid-'70s when I was in elementary school, and I was just into space. Somewhere along the way, I started realizing there were really interesting ideas in the show.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.
- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.
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- Nov 07, 2020