Classmates Quotes - Page 2

• No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Children, Thinking, Age

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• I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.

  Misha Collins

  Yoga, Class, Scare

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

  John Thorn

  Failing, Egotistical, Concern

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• As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

  Patricia Heaton

  Song, Children, Neighborhood

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• I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

  Petra Nemcova

  Teacher, People, Paper

  "How supermodel Petra Nemcova's tragedy changed children's lives" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I was educated in London at Central Saint Martins and had this whole thing about getting together with a lot of international students. Twenty-three languages were spoken during our lunch breaks! The school was very open minded, you could do whatever you wanted. Some people loved that freedom, others got lost. Gareth Pugh was a classmate, and so was Peter Jensen.

  Henrik Vibskov

  School, People, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I would do is I would just remember the scene and I'd go home and I'd write out the scene from memory. And anything I didn't remember I would just fill in the blanks myself and then go and give it to a classmate and then we'd do it.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Memories, Home, Writing

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• Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets.
  - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Magic, Library, United States

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• For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

  George A. Romero

  School, Kids, Guy

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• No child is taught to kill, but he has to be taught to love, respect, honor and value, not only his own life, but the lives of his classmates, parents and teachers. He has to experience love and acceptance. He has to know his life has purpose and meaning. No amount of money can do that.

  Cal Thomas

  Teacher, Children, Acceptance

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• On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Sex, Nice

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.28, Penguin

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• I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kids, Eye, Parent

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.89, Vintage Canada

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• I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

  John Cage

  Running, Book, Reading

  John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz (1993). “John Cage, writer: previously uncollected pieces”, Amadeus Press

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• There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivation, Balance, Trying

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

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• My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

  Michelle Obama

  White, Trying, Matter

  "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community". Senior thesis, Princeton University, p. 14-15, 1985.

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• I remember telling my classmates when I was 8-years-old that (being a sportscaster) is what I wanted to do. That was the only thing I ever wanted to do with my life.

  Adam Schein

  Years, Remember, Wanted

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• We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

  Tom Bissell

  Children, School, Games

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• I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.

  Oliver Stone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

  Robert Winston

  Teacher, School, Butterfly

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• I thought that was the coolest thing in the world, the idea of somebody trying to solve mysteries. I would see conspiracies in everything. I think I believed in leprechauns longer than any of my fellow classmates because I tried to catch them.

  Alex Hirsch

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an audience. Right? I mean, growing up with the mother that I did, I learned that when you walk into the dry cleaners, there's an audience waiting for you. You know, maybe it's just the person behind the counter.

  David Sedaris

  Mother, Art, Growing Up

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings for that, as we all know. I had many classmates that made it in the business, but stand-up comedy was my way in, and my first film 'Sleepwalk with Me' was based on those autobiographical experiences.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Jobs, College, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."

  Amanda Schull

  School, Actresses, Ethics

  "Amanda Schull: Fate intervened with 'Center Stage'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. August 9, 2010.

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• When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Growing Up, Home, School

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.

  Barack Obama

  School, Voice, People

  "No, this video does not show Obama urging undocumented people to vote" by Caitlin Dewey and Abby Ohlheiser, www.washingtonpost.com. November 8, 2016.

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