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I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.
I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.
Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.
I'm pretty pale. In high school I was insecure and thought it'd be cool to go to a tanning bed. Now I just let it look the way it looks.
I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.
The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.
I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!
If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.
I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.
I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.
Medical School is the next step in my career. There is no doubt about that. My mind is still hungry and I want to continue my education.
I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.
A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."
My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.
I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.
If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.
It's bizarre. In middle school, I thought girls were running away from me, so when they ask for a picture now, I'm like, 'Really, what?!'
In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school
Regular school is one bajillion times easier than online school. I want friends; I want a social life. I want that experience in my life.
I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.
One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.
My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste.
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
You can't play a high school student forever, so at some point, I'm going to have to tear down that wall and tear off that wig and be me.
This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.
She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.
Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.
Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.
I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.
Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.
Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.
I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.
I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.