School Quotes - Page 31

• I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

  Cindy Crawford

  Girl, Mean, Popular Song

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• I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.

  Charlie Crist

  Believe, Home, Fighting

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• I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.

  Sloane Crosley

  Art, Good Day, Years

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• The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.

  Sloane Crosley

  Keys, Years, Car

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• Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thank You, Crush, Girl

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• Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

  Stanley Crouch

  Dog, Liars, Parent

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• While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.

  Russell Crowe

  Art, Australia, Trying

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• I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life.

  Penelope Cruz

  Girl, Strong, Children

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

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• Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

  Billy Crystal

  Book, Play, Shows

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• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.

  Ice Cube

  Art, Perspective, Understanding

  "Ice Cube Discusses His Collaboration With RareInk". Interview with Melinda Brocka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.

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• Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

  Ice Cube

  Hate, Rap, Thinking

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• I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

  Macaulay Culkin

  People, Age, No Friends

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• As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

  Macaulay Culkin

  Senior, Acting, Want

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• Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Males, Adolescence, Crap

  "Benedict Cumberbatch on playing Sherlock Holmes". Interview with Amanda Mitchison, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Drama, Acting, Normal

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• I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Real, Teaching, Opportunity

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• When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Jobs, Drama, Guilt

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• Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Students, Authority, Ninety

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• I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!"

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  High School, Looks, Wow

  "Actress-author Jamie Lee Curtis". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 21, 2012.

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• I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Philosophy, Writing, People

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• It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

  John Cusack

  Yearbook, Hair, Looks

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• When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Two, Let It Go

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• I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

  Louis C. K.

  Nyu, Kind, Film

  "Louis C.K.: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2011.

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• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  Park Chan-wook

  Growing Up, Devil, Taught

  "Park life". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

  Roald Dahl

  Memories, Ties, Trying

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.28, Penguin

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