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School Quotes


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


"I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A."


"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."


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


"I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school."


"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."



"I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school."


"We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are."


"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."



"I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it."



"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened."


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


"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."


"You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit."



"I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles."


"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 wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."


"Most every dental school has discount dental services."


"There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate."


"High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again."


"I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school."


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


"I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him."


"I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it."


"I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school."


"I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill."


"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."



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


"I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble."



"I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade."


"In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three."



"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."


"Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out."
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