“I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.” WantTryingYearsHomeKidsSchoolThreeSpeakWorryFourConnectedBritishBritainComing HomeGet BackAccents Author:Kevin McKidd
“All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.” WantSchoolLaughingPubsTime OffHave A LaughSchool Friends Author:Samantha Mumba
“The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh. I think there's an element of that in there.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingWellsSchoolLaughingElementsHarderCuteRelyShyHanging OutMaking People Laugh Author:Kaitlin Olson
“It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayWantKindDoeHomeKidsSchoolUsedNamesNiceShopsBad ThingsBe KindKnow Me Author:Terry O'Quinn
“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.” ThinkingWantNeedsSchoolTeacherSubjectsConsumersShopsGoods Author:Daniel Pennac
“Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.” PeopleWantKindHardSchoolLevelsFindingsAthleteWho I AmLike Me Author:Sally Pearson
“My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore.” WantFeelsStillsDoneSchoolUsedLeftUnderstandingMy FriendsWork OutGradesHanging OutGymNailsMallsLeft OutSixth GradeSchool FriendsNails Done Author:Aly Raisman
“I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.” WantSchoolDegreesSociologyGoing Back To School Author:Alicia Sacramone
“With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.” WantWritingChildrenHandsAbleSchoolParentStudySpecialDemandTestsEarsMy ChildrenShakesStatisticsContractsPublic SchoolAccountingCalculusPrepsSpecial Education Author:Amity Shlaes
“I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.” WantSaidSchoolClassClubsPhysicsEngineeringScrewsPlaying Music Author:Huey Lewis
“I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.” WantYearsSchoolPastReturnTerribleHigh SchoolPantsAcneHairdos Author:Joe Scarborough
“I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.” ThinkingWantSchoolWatchesHigh SchoolEconomist Author:Thomas J. Sargent
“Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.” WantHeartSchoolMy HeartProductions Author:Zoe Tapper
“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
“You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.” PeopleWorldWantSchoolForgetFoundationStartingGraduatesChefStarting PointGraduate School Author:Roy Yamaguchi
“I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.” IfsWantSchool Author:RJ Mitte
“I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.” WantSchoolFilmActingFilmmakingFilm School Author:Art Alexakis
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantWellsEyeSchoolModelsAround The WorldPlentyWatsonEmmaPublic EyeMultitasking Author:Karlie Kloss
“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.” PeopleKnowsWantSchoolWishWish You Author:Dave Kellett
“Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.” PeopleWantSometimesSchoolJobsListeningRight NowJust Listen Author:Alexandra Kotur
“In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.” WantSchoolJobsImpossibleDecidedFlyingWhere You AreJudgedAirlineGradGrad SchoolSeniority Author:W. Richard Stevens