School Quotes - Page 22

• I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

  Malin Akerman

  Tv Shows, Roles, Guests

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. April 23, 2011.

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• Because I haven't been in a band, I wasn't in that zone. I'm just a mom that needs to pick up her kids from school. I just don't remember what it is you do, what you wear. Even just doing photo sessions where you think, "I just don't remember how to do this."

  Miki Berenyi

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

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• I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom to think for ourselves. The education was good at the Catholic school, but you only got that one ideology.

  Laura Dern

  Teacher, Thinking, Catholic

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• Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about Choate every since he went there. Treat Williams, who's a good friend, went to Kent School, in Connecticut. The stories I've heard about those places - didn't you have one nun who was just the worst nightmare?

  Laura Dern

  Good Friend, Catholic, Nightmare

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• I think if you were to talk to women who have run, both successfully and unsuccessfully, nearly all of them would say, "You learn so much." You learn about yourself, what you're capable of doing.... And it doesn't have to all happen when you're young - I mean, one of the most powerful women in American politics is Nancy Pelosi. She had five children. She didn't go into politics until her youngest child was in high school.... That's one of the great things about being a woman in today's world: You have a much longer potential work life than our mothers or our grandmothers did.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Running, Children

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• I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work. I started talking to Noah - Panda Bear - about recording a really solid album, spending a lot of time on it to get it to sound exactly the way we wanted it to.

  Avey Tare

  Song, Writing

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• I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

  Avey Tare

  Warrior, Thinking, Psychedelic

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• Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human being and is very patient. She had enough patience for me, as a kid, which I'm very thankful for. She made sure that music was a part of my general education as well.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Mother, Teacher, Kids

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• Malcolm Gladwell was on TV talking about wanting to have college football banned. It's interesting just because of him even bringing the topic up. Sooner or later, whether people are for or against it whether they like it or not, that is going to be a discussion that is going to come up. That's how it all starts - someone brings up the inquiry: Should we continue to let our children play Pop Warner, high school, and college football? Ten, 15, 20 years from now, who knows where that conversation is going to be.

  Donte Stallworth

  Football, Children, College

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• I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

  Diane Abbott

  Children, Mps, Labour

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• High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Dream, Opportunity, Dropouts

  "Transitioning From Athlete To AuthorHas Opened A Colorful New World". Blivin, J., kareemabduljabbar.com. June 19, 2012.

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• I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Opportunity, Coaching

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• You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Crazy, Years, Play

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• When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

  Chinua Achebe

  Land, People, Stories

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• I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

  Amy Adams

  Jobs, College, Skills

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• I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn’t go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see Tommy when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.

  Amy Adams

  Dinner, Saws, Grew Up

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

  Amy Adams

  Children, Kids, Fighting

  "Amy Adams: punching above her weight" by Sophie Heawood, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2011.

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• Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

  Kate Adie

  Illustration, Progress, Authority

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• My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

  Ben Affleck

  Mother, Dad, College

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

  Christina Aguilera

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Girl, Two, Guy

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• Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

  Malin Akerman

  Careers, Choices, Toronto

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.

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• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, Mean, Thinking

  "Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat". Interview with Pat Mitchell, en.tiny.ted.com.

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• You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

  Alan Alda

  Business, Want, Selling

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• I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

  Jason Aldean

  Baseball, Opportunity, College

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