- Economics
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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
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't own a record player when I was younger. I just played every day after school and then started gigging around town. I heard bands and songs through friends of mine, but a lot of what I picked up on was learned by traveling through college towns.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Catholic grade school, so we sang a lot of religious songs: 'O Holy Night,' 'Silent Night.'
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to quite a nice school as a kid, where everyone was quite posh, because my dad was making some money.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I sort of got bullied in high school but no more than anyone else. I felt like everyone was weird or different.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the mid-'60s, I quit school and wandered across the country, hitchhiked back and forth a few times, and ended up in hippie times, in the street in Toronto, in Yorkville.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed writing in school. I don't know that I was all that good at it in school. I worked at it later. I feel comfortable writing now. I enjoy writing now. I suspect, like most college students, I viewed writing then to be more tedious.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was treated as a subject that was as important as everything else, and I believe it is.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020