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School Quotes


"I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate."


"It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins."


"You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school."



"The schools ain't what they used to be and never was."


"I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17."


"There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth."



"I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things."


"I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top."


"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."


"I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it."



"I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school."



"I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges."


"I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork."


"I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school."


"I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would."


"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."


"I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school."


"In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe."


"You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot."


"So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught."


"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."


"I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive."


"I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side."


"I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades."



"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."


"Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?"


"I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it."


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


"As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool."


"I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book."


"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."


"You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together."


"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."


"I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years."


"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."


"Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person."


"I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test."



"Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota."


"I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much."
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