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



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


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


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


"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."



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


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


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


"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 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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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



"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."


"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."


"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."


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


"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."


"Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?"


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