School Quotes - Page 28

• The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

  Tucker Carlson

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

  Jim Carrey

  Shells, Kind, Reason

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• Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.

  Benjamin Carson

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

  Benjamin Carson

  Reality, Firsts, Tvs

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• When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

  Benjamin Carson

  Clothes, Long, Guy

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• Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

  Graydon Carter

  Men, Thinking, Italian

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• You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

  Graydon Carter

  Mother, Light, Sick

  "Get Carter". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2002.

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• I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Strong, Directors, Agents

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• In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

  Julian Casablancas

  People, World, Aliens

  "Julian Casablancas: 'What would you like me to say?'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

  Michael N. Castle

  Children, Responsibility, Community

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• During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

  Michael N. Castle

  College, African American, Historical

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• At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

  Nick Cave

  Magnet

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• I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

  Nick Cave

  Book, Reading, Listening

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• The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Night, People

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• At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

  Henry Cavill

  "‘Man of Steel’: Henry Cavill found ‘essential’ insight in ‘Red Son’". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

  Jackie Chan

  Hollywood, Spokes

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• High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.

  Kyle Chandler

  Latin, Mean, Years

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

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• The home is the chief school of human virtues.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Home, Aggravation

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(411 p.)”, p.69

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• A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

  Tracy Chapman

  Kids, Cleveland, Way

  "The quiet revolutionary". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2008.

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• From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

  Dick Cheney

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Heart, Mean, Kids

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• It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

  Kenny Chesney

  Sports, Church, Sound

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• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, Knowledge

  "Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

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• I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

  Billy Childish

  Levels, Tests, Exam

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