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"The schools ain't what they used to be and never was."
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"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."

"I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school."

"The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS."

"We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio."

"I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride."

"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."
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"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by."


"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."


"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."


"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."


"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."


"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."
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