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School Quotes


"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."



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



"I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble."


"In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some."



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


"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 always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school."


"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools."



"I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating."


"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."



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


"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."


"My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent."


"I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school."



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


"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."



"Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years."


"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."


"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 in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins."



"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."



"I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue."


"I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school."


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


"I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture."



"I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975."



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


"In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do."


"I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again."


"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."


"I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school."



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


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


"I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that."


"A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it."



"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."


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