School Quotes - Page 36

• I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.

  Will Ferrell

  Night, Water, Agents

  5 Copy quote

• I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

  Will Ferrell

  Couple, College, Texas

  8 Copy quote

• I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

  Tim Ferriss

  Eye, Home, Guy

  4 Copy quote

• I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

  Tim Ferriss

  Sports, Wrestling, Athlete

  7 Copy quote

• I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Girl, Drama

  8 Copy quote

• When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

  Tina Fey

  Phones, Cells, Brain

  4 Copy quote

• We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Theme, Born

  11 Copy quote

• Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Father, Block, Gun

  8 Copy quote

• In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Strong, Kids, Issues

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  Sally Field

  Growing Up, Drama, Lucky

  7 Copy quote

• I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

  Nathan Fillion

  Teacher, Acting, Looks

  "IGN Interviews Nathan Fillion". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 29, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.

  Nathan Fillion

  Uncles, Guy, Truck

  4 Copy quote

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  Nathan Fillion

  Teacher, Class, Play

  5 Copy quote

• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  Nathan Fillion

  Class, Sick, One Day

  4 Copy quote

• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  Carly Fiorina

  Law, Decision, Want

  4 Copy quote

• I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

  Bobby Flay

  School Work, High School, Interest

  4 Copy quote

• And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

  Vince Flynn

  Football, Kids, Player

  "Glenn Beck: An Hour With Author Vince Flynn". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Son, Thinking, Wife

  "Speechless" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Growing Up, Home

  "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Have Not Reduced Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Way, Speed, Enough

  "Didn't he do well". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

  Jodie Foster

  Kids, Avid, Different

  "Jodie Foster On “The Beaver” and Making Personal Films". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

  Jim Fowler

  Memories, Fall, Church

  7 Copy quote

• When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.

  Megan Fox

  Children, Kids, Jokes

  5 Copy quote

• By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

  Michael J. Fox

  Careers, Acting, Favors

  4 Copy quote

• As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Kids, Thinking, Guitar

  7 Copy quote