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School Quotes


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


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


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



"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'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."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


"I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad."


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


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


"At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising."


"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."


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


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


"I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less."


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


"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."


"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?"


"We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances."
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