School Quotes

"We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for"

Roy Clark, Entertainer

"The time has come to end social promotion in our schools"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms"

Stephen Stills, Musician

"To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising"

Billy Crystal, Comedian

"Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three"

Ruben Studdard, Musician

"All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed"

William Wiley, Soldier

"I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do"

John Hawkes, Actor

"Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing"

Robert Bresson, Director

"They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them"

Eric Carle, Author

"I educated myself. To me, school was boring"

Van Morrison, Musician

"Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out"

Phil Harris, Musician

"Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record"

Kim Gordon, Musician

"Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions"

Steve Kerr, Athlete

"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins"

John Money, Psychologist

"I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed"

Mary Stuart Masterson, Actress

"My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros"

Mark Sanchez, Athlete

"I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless"

John Mayer, Musician

"The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich"

James Loeb, Businessman

"When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth"

James D'arcy, Actor

"I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves"

David Horowitz, Writer

"I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco"

Gary Cole, Actor

"I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer"

Francis W. Newman, Writer

"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club"

David Dinkins, Politician

"Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person"

Corbin Bleu, Actor

"I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater"

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Actor

"We don't stop going to school when we graduate"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children"

Phil Lesh, Musician

"It is difficult because the school I go to, my friends do not attend"

Mila Kunis, Actress

"No, the czar did not want us in the schools"

Mary Antin, Activist

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