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School Quotes


"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."


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


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


"In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three."


"When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays."


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


"I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in."


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


"My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school."


"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."


"I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly."


"When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more."


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


"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."


"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."


"The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type."


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


"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."


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


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


"I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him."


"I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble."


"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."


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


"When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved."


"We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are."


"There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage."


"I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas."


"I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school."


"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."


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


"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 never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks."


"When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China."


"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."


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


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