School Quotes - Page 34

• Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

  Edward Norton

  Running, Fun, Romance

  Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.

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• We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

  Joan Lunden

  Lunch, Healthy, Reform

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• I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

  Edward Norton

  Kids, Mars, Remember

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• If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

  John Lydon

  Character, Kids, Church

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• I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

  John Lydon

  Discovery, Sharks, White

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• I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Mother, Childhood, Towns

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

  "Shirley MacLaine Gets Her Mean On in Bernie". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

  Anthony Mackie

  Hard Work, Opportunity, College

  Interview with Bevy Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

  Macklemore

  Sports, Baseball, Years

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

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• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Motivational, Family, Success

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• The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Stressed, Needs, Students

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• Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

  John Malkovich

  Design, Lines, Costumes

  "John Malkovich On Set Interview RED". Group interview, collider.com. July 14, 2010.

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• My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

  Peyton Manning

  Mean, Isms, Want

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• Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

  Keith O'Brien

  Sex, Block, Law

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• I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

  Shirley Manson

  Insecurity, Way, Feels

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• I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

  Hilary Mantel

  Lying, Book, Library

  "Author, author: I once stole a book ..." by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2009.

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• Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Years, Games

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Play, Hip Hop

  "Branford Marsalis On Sensitive Musicians And The First Family Of Jazz". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 11, 2012.

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• I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

  Demetri Martin

  Law, President, Vices

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

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• I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

  Demetri Martin

  Law, Interesting, Three

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. November 29, 2006.

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• For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.

  Demetri Martin

  Summer, Home, Law

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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• I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

  Demetri Martin

  Jobs, College, Law

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

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• I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Profound, Juniors

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

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• I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

  George R. R. Martin

  Careers, Hollywood, Stories

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

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• I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

  Steve Martin

  People, Laughing, Ego

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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