School Quotes - Page 32

• All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

  Roald Dahl

  Senior, Boys, Facts

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.137, Penguin

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• You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

  Roger Daltrey

  Rebel, Said, Knows

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

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• I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

  Matt Damon

  Drama, Play, Geek

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

  Claire Danes

  Psych, Class, Firsts

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• I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.

  Claire Danes

  Agents, Young, Employed

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• And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.

  Mitch Daniels

  Children, Thinking, Government

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Kissing, Faces, Paint

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• Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Work Out, Listening, Records

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• All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

  Evan Davis

  Love, Silly, Gay

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

  Jonathan Davis

  Beautiful, Girl, Stars

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• I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

  Richard Dawkins

  Average, Careers, Special

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• I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

  Richard Dawkins

  Birthday, Age, Preps

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• If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

  Stockwell Day

  Sex, Law, Instruction

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Christian, Wall, Sunday

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Men, Texas, Wife

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• If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

  Jim DeMint

  Teaching, Gay, Want

  "Stephen Colbert for U.S. Senate! (Seriously)" by Dean Obeidallah, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

  Cat Deeley

  Squares, Lucky, Exam

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• Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

  Paula Deen

  Growing Up, Kitchen, Mama

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• Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

  Jacques Derrida

  Teaching, Anxiety, Today

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• I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

  Jacques Derrida

  Long, Sickness, Behavior

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.343, Stanford University Press

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• When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Smart, Mind, Littles

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• When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum, in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today and it's called the Internet.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mother, Growing Up, Records

  "Legal System Treats Celebs Differently, Dershowitz Says". Interview with Chris Cuomo, sports.yahoo.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Singing, Acting, Broadway

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• Nothing could be as hard as middle school.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Middle School, Middle, Hard

  "Little Miss Adorkable". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com.au. May 29, 2013.

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• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Unique, People

  "Zooey Deschanel, 'New Girl' creator discuss the kiss, and the lack of a master plan for the show" by Jeff Jensen, ew.com. February 5, 2013.

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