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Desmond Dekker

"I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school."

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Akshay Vasu

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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Akshay Vasu

"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."

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Akshay Vasu

"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."

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Akshay Vasu

"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."

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Akshay Vasu

"You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school."

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Akshay Vasu

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Akshay Vasu

"Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out."

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Akshay Vasu

"I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad."

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Akshay Vasu

"I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue."

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Desmond Dekker
"Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts."

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Desmond Dekker
"Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's."

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Desmond Dekker
"I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story."

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Desmond Dekker
"I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that."

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Desmond Dekker
"I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school."

School

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Desmond Dekker
"So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor."

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Desmond Dekker
"Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style."

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Desmond Dekker
"Things will get better if you just hold out long enough."

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