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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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."



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


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


"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."
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