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They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.
I was always the weirdo at school. When I became a model [at 16], I didn't tell anybody. I was terrified that the kids would rip me to pieces.
So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.
Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.
My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.
I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.
I'm still a tomboy at heart. In high school, I was the girl in the baggy jeans and Timberlands, but I was also at the hairdresser's every week.
When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.
You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.
People will urge you to go to school. They’ll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80’s. You are here to hustle.
I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.
Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.
I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.
It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.
I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.
I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.
I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.
In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.
A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.
Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.
When I was in elementary school I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.
I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.
I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!
I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week
Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.
I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.
Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.
I didn't really get sidetracked into being a singer. It was just something I started to do for fun in school, like singing the national anthem.
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.