School Quotes - Page 29

• I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

  Margaret Cho

  Mother, Growing Up, Glue

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• I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'

  Margaret Cho

  Teacher, Art, Night

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• Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Opportunity, Self

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.149, Pantheon

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• When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

  Deepak Chopra

  Christian, Growing Up, Missionary

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• I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Parent, Needs

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• When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Fashion, Artist

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• I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

  Amy Chua

  Teacher, Children, Believe

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• When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teaching, Kids

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• I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Outsiders, Conservative

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• I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mean, Kids, Dancing

  "Interview: Madonna reviews life". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 19, 1999.

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• In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Decision, African American, Feelings

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• I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Firsts, Formal, Wells

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• When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

  John Henrik Clarke

  Teacher, Years, Mind

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• When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Jobs, Sweat, Clothes

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• When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

  Albert Claude

  Mean, Study Life, Medical

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• I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

  Hillary Clinton

  Law, Long, Guy

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• In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

  Daniel Clowes

  Art, Art School, Hard

  "Dan Clowes Talks Confidential". Interview with Hilary Goldstein, www.ign.com. April 4, 2006.

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• Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

  Kurt Cobain

  Girl, Gay, Feminine

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• Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?

  Tom Coburn

  Girl, Thinking, Oklahoma

  "Coburn Warns of 'Lesbianism' in Schools". www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2004.

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• I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

  Diablo Cody

  Son, House, Tuition

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• I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

  Diablo Cody

  Personality, Kind, Clock

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• When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

  Diablo Cody

  Kids, Catholic, Chicago

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• I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.

  Andy Cohen

  Summer, Children, Attitude

  Andy Cohen (2012). “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture”, p.7, Macmillan

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• I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Two, Training

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• I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

  Stephen Colbert

  Teenager, Newspapers

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com.

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