School Quotes - Page 37

• People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Writing, Kids, Aggravation

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• You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Airplane, Careers, Lines

  "Have Your Loved Ones Spayed and Neutered". Album by Jeff Foxworthy, 2004.

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• An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

  Anatole France

  Education, Mind, Doe

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

  James Franco

  Effort, Acting, Painting

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

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• My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

  James Franco

  Teacher, Years, Names

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• School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

  James Franco

  Taken, Acting, Roles

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• When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

  James Franco

  Years, Two, Firsts

  "James Franco Talks ‘The Broken Tower’ and Addresses His Critics". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

  Al Franken

  Government, Careers, Steps

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.6, Penguin

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• I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

  Al Franken

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

  Al Franken

  Mom, Dad, Real

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• My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

  Al Franken

  Dad, Two, House

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

  Al Franken

  Dad, Careers, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

  Michael Franti

  Basketball, College, Funny Things

  "POP MUSIC : A 'News Junkie' and His Rap : 10 QUESTIONS : MICHAEL FRANTI : Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. August 23, 1992.

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• I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

  Dawn French

  Drama, Struggle, Cash

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• I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

  Thomas Friedman

  Daughter, Mother, College

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• I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

  Thomas Friedman

  Kids, Groups, Public School

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.12, Macmillan

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• I go to school the youth to learn the future.

  Robert Frost

  Youth

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• Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Social, Enterprise

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• I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  America, Switzerland, Citizens

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

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• I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

  Lady Gaga

  Running, Jobs, Parent

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• I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Boys, College, Wonderful

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• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Equality, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.16, A&C Black

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• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Government, Atheism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.

  James Gandolfini

  Intelligent, Thinking, Class

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

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• My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

  Jennifer Garner

  Girlfriend, Two, Community

  "Jennifer Garner Was Not A Cool Kid", www.fansshare.com. February 6, 2012.

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