School Quotes - Page 40

• Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.

  Graham Norton

  Drama, Years, Circuits

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 11, 2003.

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• I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

  Gary Numan

  Children, Home, Years

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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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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• Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, Half, Requirements

  "Sandra Day O'Connor Weighs In on Immigration, the Supreme Court and Civics Ed". "Good Morning America" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. May 27, 2010.

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• The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Children, Reading, Kids

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• I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Teaching, Years, Unfortunate

  "Sandra Day O’Connor on Judicial Elections, Supreme Court’s New Players". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 13, 2010.

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• When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Dark, Court Judges, Law

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• The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Relationship, Emotional, Government

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• I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Second Chance, Gone, Path

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• I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Reading, Age, Remember

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• My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Dream, Father

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• I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

  Ed O'Neill

  Girl, Sports, Football

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• As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Teacher, Motivation, Creativity

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• Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Growing Up, Fire, Hands

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• Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Enemies List”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Way, Novel

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• I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who was your next door neighbor you were playing with, who your girlfriend was. It's always something very specific.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Doors

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• What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

  James Patterson

  Kids, People, Coming Out

  "Surviving Summer Camp In James Patterson's 'Middle School'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 22, 2013.

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• Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

  Michelle Obama

  America, United States, Would Be

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• Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.

  Michelle Obama

  Healthy Choices, Giving, Parent

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• In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

  Apolo Ohno

  Marketing, International Business, International

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• At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

  Gary Oldman

  Kids, Squares, Acting

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• The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

  Gary Oldman

  Drama, Giving, Intuition

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• I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

  Mary Oliver

  Might, Gathering, Kind

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