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My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.
I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.
Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.
I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.
I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.
At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.
Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.
I've opened up my school in California in a beautiful facility on Ventura Boulevard. I'm always in heaven when I'm doing my classes.
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.
I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.
That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.
You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.
I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.
To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.
I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.
I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.
You know, my basic theory about kids: they are monsters in children ziploc suits, which they discard when they go to school each day.
I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.
I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.
The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.
I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.
A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand!
I had a hard time in middle school. I was never really quite me until I was 16 or 17, and things like bullying didn't matter anymore.
I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.
The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.
The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.
The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe`s best baseball writer when I was in high school.
Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.
For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.
I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.
I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.
I believe that over 90 percent of LU students try hard to comply with the behavioral code and are supportive of the school's mission.
I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.
I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
I feel as if most people are pretty much the same within a certain class, due to the schools they attend and the way they are raised.
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.