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“People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!”

People Knows Whole Would Be School Actors Gone Whole Life One Friend

Author:Sara Paxton

“When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.”

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Author:Francine Pascal

“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.”

“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'.”

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Author:Dan Wheldon

“I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.”

Home Would Be Running Kids School Car Hot Guitar Magazines Engines Bothered

Author:Angus Young

“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.”

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Author:Al Franken

“Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.”

Ifs Would Be School Drama Eastern Thug

Author:Alfred Molina

“When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.”

Writing Years Play Would Be School Type Computer Eight Playwright

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.”

Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

“To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.”

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Book:The educational essays

Source: The educational essays

“I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.”

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Author:David Gelernter

“If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education.”

Ifs Book Would Be Running School Found Teaching College Skills Entrepreneur Mindset Traditional Antidote Bureaucrats College Education

Author:Scott Banister

“The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.”

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.”

Made Enough Government Would Be School House Nations Poor Taxes Scholar Perpetual Spares Benevolence Alms

Book:The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...

Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...

“I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.”

Ifs Would Be School Rich Teacher Ten Summer Holiday More Time Weekend Time Off School Teachers

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"”

Would Be Wanted School Easier High School Uniforms

Author:Taylor Schilling

“In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.”

Thinking Want Trying Would Be School Film One Day Scary Film School Maybe One Day

Author:Amelia Warner

“I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.”

Writing Years Two Stories Would Be School Stuff Class High School Moved Two Years Daydreaming

Author:Charlie McDermott

“It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than it is Susan B. Anthony's 50-year effort to transform the face of America for women? When you're in school, most of the events you study are about men. Men's activities lauded and repeated over and over. What about us? What about commemorating the decades-long struggle for suffrage? Why don't we hear those stories over and over and over again. It's almost inconceivable for men to understand what it would be like to live without that constant valorization.”

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Author:Judy Chicago

“I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.”

Two Play Would Be School Actors Tree Good Actors

Author:Suraj Sharma

“I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.”

Would Be Wanted School Stuff Parent Share Worst Stupid Healthy High School Fairs Worst Things Disappoint Fair Share Healthy Fear

Author:Christine Lakin

“The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.”

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Author:Madeleine Albright

“I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.”

Facts Would Be School Sex Walks Figures Wall Drawing Engaged Bathroom Toilets Facts Of Life Crude

Author:Liam Neeson

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