Famous Quotes: School

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
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I started playing music at a pretty young age.
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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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What is art? Nature concentrated.
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My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.
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I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
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I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
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I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
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Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
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I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.
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