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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."
"I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly."
"I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer."
"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
"Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person."
"When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays."
"I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating."
"Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?"
Explore more quotes by Mary Antin
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
"If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them."
"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."
"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day."
"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."
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