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"We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances."
Andy Williams
"We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances."
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"There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate."
Chi McBride
"There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate."
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"Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?"
Edward Furlong
"Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?"
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"I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school."
Edwin Moses
"I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school."
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"I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir."
Elizabeth Moon
"I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir."
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"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."
Tom Joyner
"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."
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"I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school."
Robert Pattinson
"I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school."
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"I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school."
Jimmy Griffin
"I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school."
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"I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble."
Scott Caan
"I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble."
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"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."
Clea Duvall
"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."
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"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools."
Jeremy London
"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools."
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"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
Jane Haddam
"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
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"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."
Alonzo Church
"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."
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"When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was."
Dick York
"When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was."
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"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."
Kelly Preston
"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."
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"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."
Bernice Johnson Reagon
"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."
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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
Ryan White
"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
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"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."
Diane Cilento
"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."
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"A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it."
Cotton Mather
"A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it."
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"Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers."
Frederic William Farrar
"Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers."
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"I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade."
Stacie Orrico
"I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade."
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"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."
Dan Simmons
"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."
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"I went to high school with Al Capone."
Desi Arnaz
"I went to high school with Al Capone."
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"I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks."
Claire Forlani
"I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks."
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"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."
James Tobin
"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."
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"I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school."
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"I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand."
Don Adams
"I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand."
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"I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles."
Shannon Elizabeth
"I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles."
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"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."
Phillip Noyce
"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."
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"Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota."
Dave Winfield
"Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota."
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"I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school."
Desmond Dekker
"I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school."
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"Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind."
Stacie Orrico
"Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind."
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"A good place to start initially would be school plays."
Sara Gilbert
"A good place to start initially would be school plays."
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"I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school."
Joel Madden
"I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school."
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"I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less."
Colm Meaney
"I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less."
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"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."
Harvey Pekar
"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."
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"I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true."
Jim Otto
"I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true."
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"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."
Conan O'Brien
"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."
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"I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad."
Devon Sawa
"I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad."
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"You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school."
Colin Mochrie
"You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school."
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"I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture."
Danny Bonaduce
"I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture."
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"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."
Al Jourgensen
"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."
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"I dated the same girl all through high school."
Mark Hoppus
"I dated the same girl all through high school."
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"Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising."
Billy Crystal
"Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising."
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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
Van Morrison
"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
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"I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school."
Estelle Morris
"I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school."
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"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."
Dakota Fanning
"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."
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"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."
Emo Philips
"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."
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"After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper."
Grazia Deledda
"After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper."
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"The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses."
Gaston Caperton
"The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses."
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