School Quotes - Page 24

• I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

  Eric Bana

  Jobs, Dad, Son

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

  Eric Bana

  Greek, Wish, Study

  "An Interview with Eric Bana". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. May 13, 2004.

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• I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

  Ann Bancroft

  Thinking, People, Childhood

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• And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

  Travis Barker

  Years, Three, Band

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• In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

  Dave Barry

  Literature, Students, Parliament

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

  Lynda Barry

  Art, Book, Reading

  The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. December 8, 1999.

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• The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

  Lynda Barry

  Couple, Kids, Class

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• Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

  Drew Barrymore

  Photography, Art, Lying

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• I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

  Drew Barrymore

  Children, People, Tough Times

  "Drew Barrymore Admits Her Directorial Debut Whip It Has the Pain of Her Childhood". The Mail on Sunday Interview, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. March 14, 2010.

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• Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

  Jacques Barzun

  Baseball, Team, Heart

  God's Country and Mine ch. 8 (1954)

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• Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hands, Two, Mind

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• I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Rebel

  "The kiss of death" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.

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• You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

  Martha Beck

  Parent, Social Pressure, Attention

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• I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

  Victoria Beckham

  Fashion, Kids, Uniforms

  "MarieClaire.com Exclusive: Victoria Beckham Tells All". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Intelligent, Three

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

  Dan Benishek

  Jobs, Prison, Resources

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• Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Experience, Fool, Keep Going

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• Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Daughter, Dad, Children

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• I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spring, Fall, Eight

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• It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Responsibility, Motherhood, Day Care

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Book, Boys, Eight

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• Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

  Jello Biafra

  Cities, Important, Boards

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• A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.

  Mayim Bialik

  High School, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

  Mayim Bialik

  Play, Acting, Enjoyed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

  Joe Biden

  Law, Recollection, Recalls

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