School Quotes - Page 23

• I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Father, Grateful, Kenya

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• Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

  Gracie Allen

  Funny, Family, Senior

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• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  Ian Anderson

  Art, Tree, Mind

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• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  Ian Anderson

  Children, Writing, Character

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• When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.

  Ian Anderson

  Girl, Dog, Cat

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• I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

  Nicole Anderson

  Couple, True Friend, Gymnastics

  "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.

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• I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.

  Jennifer Aniston

  New York, Tvs, Watches

  "Jennifer Aniston: Screens Goddess". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2008.

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• I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Art, Aggravation, Brain

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• Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

  Nancy Astor

  Education, Teacher, Real

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• When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

  Margaret Atwood

  Magazines, Kind, Publishing

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• I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

  Margaret Atwood

  Summer, Children, Fall

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• Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

  John James Audubon

  Fields, Made

  "Audubon's Story of His Youth".

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• I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Character, Play, Eyeglasses

  "Dan Aykroyd for 'Christmas with the Kranks'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

  Joe Baca

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.

  Joe Baca

  Issues, Challenges, Energy

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• I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

  Michele Bachmann

  College, Law, Program

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• I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Husband, Kids

  "Chris Wallace Asks Michele Bachmann: ‘Are You A Flake?’" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2011.

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• I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

  Erykah Badu

  Tvs, Satisfied, Explanation

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• Life is a school of probability.

  Walter Bagehot

  Life, Art, Philosophy

  Quoted in Rudolf Flesch's The New Book of Unusual Quotations

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• I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

  David Bailey

  Silly, Class, Dyslexic

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• All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

  David Bailey

  Exam, Paint, Draws

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• I left school on my 15th birthday.

  David Bailey

  Birthday, Left

  "David Bailey: Reg Kray said: 'Ere, Da'. I wish I could have done it legit like you'". Interview with Fiona Maddocks, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2015.

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• The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

  David Bailey

  Art, Teach, Art School

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• I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, law school will always be there. I was in no hurry to get right into that.

  Alec Baldwin

  Senior, College, Years

  "Baldwin on the Brink". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1989.

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• Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

  James A. Baldwin

  Education, White, Black

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