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“TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.”

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Author:Jenny Holzer

“In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.”

World Giving Trying Believe Book School Sides Too Much Habit High School Comic Kicks Believe In Me Comic Book Nerd Civilians

Author:Mark Hamill

“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.”

Thinking World Should Self Helping School Self Esteem Students Building Activity Lows Independent Self Confidence Esteem Obedience Low Self Esteem School Buildings

Author:Alison Lurie

“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.”

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Author:Michael Franti

“I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.”

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Author:Charles William Eliot

“Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.”

School Boys Written Shots Lawyer Saved Girlfriend Suspects Annoyed Fees Dallas Eve Dallas

Author:Berkeley Breathed

“I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.”

People Thinking School Stage Blow Nasty Misconception Always Happy

Author:Amy Winehouse

“I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.”

Knows Writing Heart School Educate

Author:Terrence McNally

“I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.”

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Author:Kurt Cobain

“Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.”

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Author:Katherine Paterson

“I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.”

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Author:Brian Selznick

“I'm going to continue working as a model. I want to do it all! And I think it's possible to keep working while you go to school. Christy Turlington did it. Natalie Portman did it. Emma Watson just did it! And those are just women in the public eye, but plenty of others do it, too. You know, women around the world are great at multitasking. We do it well.”

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Author:Karlie Kloss

“My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.”

Stills I Can Home School Can Do Class Study Environment Normal Program Independent Online

Author:Karlie Kloss

“Bieber has 10 million fans - most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.”

School Millions Feet Fans Middle Standing Middle School

Author:Kevin Hart

“Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.”

Giving School Spirit Poverty Streets Broken Giving Up Corruption Midst Tempted

Book:Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests

Source: Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests

“If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?”

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Author:Lamar Alexander

“Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.”

Thinking Way Heart Important School Turns Speak Language Class Cutting Music Is Crosses Vices Observation Granted Borders Vice Versa

Author:Dan Rather

“I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.”

Art Play School Ears Piano Art School

Author:John Mayall

“Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with full membership in schools are not yet treated as full citizens of our society.”

Years Persons School Citizens Ten Institutions Treated Our Society Membership Compulsory

Author:Marie Brennan

“Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.”

Two School Feet Hundred Supposed To Be Cheese Chuck Hangover Chuck E Cheese

Author:Alan Garner

“That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.”

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Author:Richard Lugar

“Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.”

School Bully Oasis

Author:Damon Albarn

“Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.”

Years School Remember Names Strange Nicknames Dummy

Author:John Lydon

“I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.”

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Author:Max Roach

“It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.”

Ifs Two Hard School Three Games High School Senior Playoffs Freshman Sophomore Playoff Games

Author:Tony Romo

“A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.”

School Library France Visiting

Author:Quentin Blake

“I was your quintessential nerd in high school.”

School High School Nerd Quintessential

Author:Neal Boortz

“We shouldn't need riot police at schools.”

Needs School Police Riot

Author:Noel Gallagher

“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.”

School Activity Theater Teenager Settling Extracurricular Activities

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Art Real School Half Draws Prepared Real Life Schooling Art School

Author:Dave Gibbons

“An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?”

Feels School Teacher Students Theory Terrible

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'”

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Author:Eli Roth

“School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.”

People Knows Want School Wish Wish You

Author:Dave Kellett

“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.”

“So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education”

School Religious Forget Mecca Religious Education

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.”

Needs School Language Process Loses Teach Information Huge Disease Empathy Sight Patient Medical Preserves Cynicism Volume Replaced Medical School

Author:Abraham Verghese

“We guided our children. We supported them. We were there for them. But once you start going through your list of schools that present a potential opportunity, a young man or a young woman has to be happy with their decision. If they are unhappy, then their whole four years of college are going to be some of the most miserable memories of their lifetime.”

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Author:Craig Biggio

“What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.”

Knows School Shooting School Shooting

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.”

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Author:Francis Collins

“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.”

Knows Ends School Struggle Drama Cash

Author:Dawn French

“As a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life.”

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Author:George Zimmerman

“In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.”

School Subjects My Favorite Math Favorite Subject

Author:French Montana

“I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.”

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Author:French Montana

“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”

“In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved.”

Wanted School Technology

Author:Marc Benioff

“Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.”

Running School Growing Up Growing Anarchy Old Fashioned Nun Bengali

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.”

Mind Hands Kids School Offers Bored Dirty Engineering Engineers

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.”

Writing Years Firsts Play School Jobs Class College

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.”

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Author:Charlotte Arnold