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" Quotes and Sayings About school

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Acting After Bear Boarding
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

Memory Nuns Poems Problems
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Amazed Among Capability College
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
Album Always Before Graduated
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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Away Because Easier Fading
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I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

Always Attention Class Class Clown
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School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

Could Focus Got Knack
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I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Around Attention Being Being Funny
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Always Band High Painting
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Good Hundred More Priests
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Civilization Clear Expanding Frontier
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My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut.

Always Anything Anything Else Attention
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When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

Artist Believe Dramatic Everything
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I always got good grades; I just didn't go to school much. I didn't like it.

Always Go Good Good Grades
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Architecture Dress Eighty Hundred
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

Always Been Close Friend
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

Challenges Daily Education Genuine
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I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

Learned Read School Teach
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It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

Autistic Because Child Go
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
Always Fashion Kid Loved
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There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

Age Build College Courses
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Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Academic Both Education Financial
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We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Books Create Hard Learn
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In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Academy Day Marine Memorize
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Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Great Spent Leadership Military
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Altar Church Church And State Contributions
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In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.

About Article Child Felt
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.

About Article Beasts Began
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The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because - Ross Perot.

Because Blessed Cast Ever
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Came Day Hiding High
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I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

Arts Athletic Because Boston
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Activities After-School Any Arts
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Education Forgotten Learned Remains
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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Bed Being Home I Can
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Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

Face Feels Fit High
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I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Bus Day Depressing Even
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I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower

Okay With School Sister
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My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

Am Her I Am Just
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In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.

Clothes Cool Cool Guy Felt
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Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

Biggest Bullied Bullies Bullying
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I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.

Acting Acting School Anything Been
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I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

School Teacher Facial Features
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Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Children Educating Family Historically
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But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Become Century Disintegration Family
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In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Age Better Doing Get
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

Actually Departments Drama Enough
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In my freshman year of high school, I don't think I had a single date. I was really shy, really timid and quiet. I had my first real date when I was a sophomore, with a girl from church.

Church Date First Freshman
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

Train Castings Changing From
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