School Quotes - Page 37

• But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of 'Glee,' like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that's interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.

  Lea Michele

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  "'Glee' Lea Michele, Chris Colfer interview: 'Barbra Streisand should not be a guest star'". Interview With Catriona Wightman, www.digitalspy.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.

  Lea Michele

  Play, People, Want

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• I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.

  Lea Michele

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

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• One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.

  David Miliband

  Jewels, Office, Reform

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

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• America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

  Dennis Miller

  Summer, Country, America

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

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• When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

  Paula Poundstone

  Voice, Giving, Speech

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth. We used to do stupid, fun girly things like pull tights over our faces and streak through the lacrosse pitch. And once I snogged the gardener.

  Sienna Miller

  Girl, Youth

  "Maxim Monday: Sienna Miller Is Our Fantasy Roommate". www.foxnews.com. April 13, 2009.

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• When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

  Wentworth Miller

  Wall, College, Law

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

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• I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

  Denise Mina

  Warrior, Men, Class

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• I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.

  Helen Mirren

  Girl, Wall, Men

  "Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

  Shay Mitchell

  Vancouver, Thailand, Able

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

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• I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn't met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them!

  Shay Mitchell

  Long, Dating, Firsts

  "Exclusive Shay Mitchell Interview" by Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. December 22, 2011.

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• I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

  Colin Powell

  Army, College, Harlem

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• When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

  Moby

  Art, Philosophy, Challenges

  "Trouble still comes easy for Moby". Interview With Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Kids, Thinking, Trying

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Boys, Special

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• One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

  Ashley Montagu

  College, Littles, Medical

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• There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

  Ashley Montagu

  Caring, Faculty Members, Lines

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• Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

  Colin Powell

  Teacher, Children, Giving

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• I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Debate, Notion, Doubtful

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.229, Stanford University Press

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• How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.

  Cory Monteith

  Lunch, Musical, Glee

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• I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.

  Cory Monteith

  Football, Games, Canada

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

  Alan Moore

  Age, Taught, Excluded

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• Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

  Alan Moore

  Growing Up, Boys, World

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• Over 13 percent of women in college have reported being a victim of stalking during the school year, and one out of every five college women has reported being sexually assaulted. It is simple to talk about statistics. It is more difficult to remember that each number is a victim and represents a daughter, a sister or a friend.

  Gwen Moore

  Daughter, Mother, Simple

  "The Campus SaVE Act: A Critical Step to Ending Violence Against Women" by Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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