School Quotes - Page 23

• I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

  Diablo Cody

  Son, House, Tuition

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• I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

  Diablo Cody

  Personality, Kind, Clock

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• When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

  Diablo Cody

  Kids, Catholic, Chicago

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• I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.

  Andy Cohen

  Summer, Children, Attitude

  Andy Cohen (2012). “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture”, p.7, Macmillan

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• I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Two, Training

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• I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Issues, Catholic, Church

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• I go to school the youth to learn the future.

  Robert Frost

  Youth

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• Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Social, Enterprise

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• I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  America, Switzerland, Citizens

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

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• When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Cheerleading, Boys

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• I was obsessed with being popular when I was in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals and things, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

  Mindy Kaling

  Costumes, Obsessed, Being Popular

  "Mindy Kaling On Diets, High School And Other American Pastimes". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 1, 2011.

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• I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

  Lady Gaga

  Running, Jobs, Parent

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• I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Boys, College, Wonderful

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• I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, Expectations, Childhood

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• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Equality, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.16, A&C Black

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• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Government, Atheism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.

  James Gandolfini

  Intelligent, Thinking, Class

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Sex, Catholic, Said

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• I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

  Kim Kardashian

  Smart, Littles, My Sister

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• My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

  Jennifer Garner

  Girlfriend, Two, Community

  "Jennifer Garner Was Not A Cool Kid", www.fansshare.com. February 6, 2012.

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• It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mom, Kids, Home

  "8 times Jennifer Garner was all of us when she talked about motherhood" by Allison Slater Tate, www.today.com. November 4, 2016.

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• The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, Reading, Rights

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books

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• Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kids, Law, White

  "Henry Louis Gates Uncovers 'Faces Of America'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. February 17, 2010.

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• For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Ambition, Training, Want

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• My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Rivers, Waiting

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