I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don't… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary;… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
My schedule won't allow me to go to regular school, but I did love public school, and I did experience my first… — Storm Reid Copy Share Image
My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had… — Virgil Green Copy Share Image
I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed -… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Models walking down the street are very rarely recognized as such. It is often the same as it was for me: models… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments have been kicked out of schools. We're killing 37 hundred-something-thousand babies a day. . . . I don't know,… — Victoria Jackson Copy Share Image
A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited… — Flea Copy Share Image
I hated going to school, mainly because my sister would drive me and she would put her make-up on while she drove.… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
I never really got into marketing. I went to school for it, but never pursued it once I got out. Instead, I… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
I was a Air Force kid. I got out of high school and I decided to join the military. I traveled and… — Donnis Copy Share Image
Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like everyone in high school, like everyone in life, we all have this outer layer we put up to protect ourselves. — Diana Silvers Copy Share Image
“I flunked out that semester, but I got my money's worth learning about people that don't have hearts no bigger than bird… — Tim Gautreaux Copy Share Image
I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out;… — Danny Pudi Copy Share Image
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I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my… — Ryan Lochte Copy Share Image
In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I ought to have Mike's Pirate School. The freshmen, all they get is the bandanna. When you're a senior, you get the… — Mike Leach Copy Share Image
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When I was in art school, I worried that being a painter seemed like it could be an elusive dream, and fashion… — Cynthia Rowley Copy Share Image
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At school, I felt out of place. I was bullied. I would think, 'These kids don't like me, they don't accept me,'… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it. — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would… — Nolan Gould Copy Share Image
When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
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