School Quotes - Page 25

• Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Graduation, Sports

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.10, University of Georgia Press

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• I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

  Ronald Biggs

  Art, London, Stuff

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

  Rachel Bilson

  Next Day, Sound, Littles

  “Are You An Outfit Planner? Rachel Bilson Is!“ by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Roles, March, Hares

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• I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Jobs, Light, Illumination

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• My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

  Jack Black

  Mother, Father, Play

  "Jack Black: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

  Lewis Black

  Art, Thinking, Goes On

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.

  Lewis Black

  Leaving, Important, Want

  "Lewis Black's Life Advice for Millennials" by Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. August 22, 2013.

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• My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

  Lewis Black

  Drama, Yale, Years

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• When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if you don't have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Giving, Common

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• I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

  Mary J. Blige

  Beautiful, Smart, Years

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• I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

  Mary J. Blige

  Cutting, Journey, Love Is

  "Queen Mary". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

  Allan Bloom

  Ignorant, Students, Lifetime

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

  Orlando Bloom

  Drama, Thinking, Historical

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 3, 2005.

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• If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

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• Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Children, College

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• During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

  Lionel Blue

  War, Home, World

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• People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

  Emily Blunt

  Jobs, People, Age

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• Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

  James Blunt

  Taken, Inspiration, Years

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• My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.

  James Blunt

  Dad, Army, Pay

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• Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Friend Love

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• I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Football, Party, Successful

  "This much I know: Andrea Bocelli". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

  Tom Bodett

  Alaska, Mountain, Cable Tv

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• Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

  Erma Bombeck

  Graduation, Pregnancy, Thinking

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• When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

  Bono

  Two, Oil, Government

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