“Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.” RealUseSchoolLastsNamesFatty Author:Lea Michele
“The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.” WantWellsChildrenWould BeRunningKidsSchoolLastsMiddleDadFinishedHeyMy ChildrenUpsetWeekendPacksEmbarrassedFifthYour Dad Author:Dan Wheldon
“Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, "Remember when your grandma died? I was there. Remember when you flunked out of school? I was there. Remember when you lost your job? I was there!" She said, "I know” KnowsSaidSchoolJobsLastsRememberLostDatingDiedInsecureRemember WhenGrandmaDumped Author:Tom Arnold
“So why you pushin' it? Why you lyin' for? I know where you live, I know your folks, you was a sucka as a kid. Your persona's drama that you acquired in high school in actin' class, Your whole aura is plexiglass. What's-her-face told me you shot this kid last week in the park; That's a lie, you was in church with your moms.” KnowsWholeKidsSchoolLastsFacesLyingChurchClassWeekMomDramaHigh SchoolShotsFolksHip HopRapParksPersonaYour MomAurasWhere You Live Author:O.C.
“I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.” ShouldWritingFirstsTwoSchoolLastsVoiceFourMinutesTerribleDramaSevenMy Best FriendGigsGags Author:Marcus Brigstocke
“You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.” YearsSchoolLastsYears AgoLast YearTeenageTeenage YearsSchool DaysFormative Years Author:Paul McCartney
“The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's what's so wonderful about it. But that's the last thing that the state corporate system wants. It is spending huge sums to prevent that.” IfsWantStatesSchoolLastsPurposeChoicesCoursesWonderfulHugeEconomicsSpendingRationalAdvertisingConsumersCorporateGraduatesGraduate School Author:Noam Chomsky
“To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.” IfsWorldTryingMadeRealSchoolLastsTeachTechnologyProgressCenturyDrivenPreparationReal WorldObsolete Author:Adora Svitak
“I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.” ChildrenStatesHomeSchoolLastsLyingMotherFallFoundRealizingImaginationGoneFeetColdMembersWinterCornersDrawingClothingsEquipmentMy ImaginationMother And ChildWinter ColdRigourBeddingSackingSaskatchewan Author:Tommy Douglas
“I'd got accepted to the seminary in Wisconsin, and I was gonna become a priest, but the last second I thought, 'I'll just go to public school.' I had just gotten a new amplifier in my bedroom, and I didn't think I was allowed to take it with me.” ThinkingSchoolLastsAcceptedPriestsBedroomPublic SchoolWisconsinSeminaryAmplifiers Author:Jack White
“I wouldn't say our relationship is always smooth sailing. In a fun sort of way, this publicizing of some feud has brought us closer together. I think it had to do with shooting an episode last season at a school. The students swarmed around him, and I'm walking along and feeling like yesterday's lunch. I was saying that was hard to deal with sometimes and he said, "Stephanie, you can go for it! All you have to do is play sexy." It was a nice chat, but the tabloids took it and made it out that I was jealous. I'm not jealous.” ThinkingWayMadeSaidSometimesHardPlayFeelingsSchoolTogetherLastsFunDealsNiceStudentsWalkingSeasonsSexyYesterdayMade ItShootingJealousLunchOur RelationshipEpisodesSmoothSailingTabloidsFeudsNot JealousSmooth Sailing Author:Stephanie Zimbalist
“And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achieved anything that feels like, a particular milestone, but there's still a lot more to learn and hopefully a lot more films to make.” ThinkingFeelsYearsLooksMeanStillsDoneSchoolLastsFilmGrowingParticularTenHopefullyOngoingMilestoneFilm School Author:Peter Jackson
“I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.” WorldYearsChildrenLongReasonSchoolLastsEasyBreakEndurePainfulEmploymentPreparationThirteen Book:A Language Older Than Words Source: A Language Older Than Words
“In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.” IfsLifeYearsMadeTwoSchoolLastsFacesSuccessGirlMistakeCompanyHigh SchoolNervousTwo YearsSpokesSuccess In LifeMade A MistakeI Made A MistakePimples Author:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
“Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.” ThinkingShouldSaidSchoolLastsFilmFormNightSawsBasketballHigh SchoolDecidedYeahPopsLast NightWadeFree ThrowD Wade Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record.” WorldYearsHas BeensSchoolPainLastsFoundJesusStruggleStudyRecordsAtheismHonestHonestyHundredTasksCriticalPositive AtheismTheologyBeing HonestRenunciationCryptic Author:Albert Schweitzer
“I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out.” ArtRealSchoolLastsCoursesTeachingDrawsWork OutReal ThingsArt School Author:Trina Robbins
“If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.” IfsTwoRealStatesDoneGovernmentSchoolLastsChoicesRecordsCuttingHighestElectionCharityBudgetsHospitalsGovernorsPollsPercentagesBureaucratsState GovernmentLandslidesSchool Choice Author:Bobby Jindal
“Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.” PeopleWayIdeasFactsStoriesSchoolLastsFilmYoungMistakeGroupsIntentionAcceptedFilm School Author:Haile Gerima
“Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.” ThinkingGivingChildrenSchoolLastsLawPracticeCenturyInvolvedReactionsRebellionContemptAfghanistanMultipleAutonomyScornBridesEmancipationAbolishAfghan Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.” YearsWarSchoolLastsEvilChurchTeachColorLaborDiedInstitutionsSlaverySundayCreedsExploitationCastesSunday School Author:W. E. B. Du Bois