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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."


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."



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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."



"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."


"I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed."


"I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer."


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


"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."


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


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


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


"When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up."
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