477 quotes found
“I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.”
“If school results were the key to power girls would be running the world.”
“I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business b...”
“I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I ...”
“I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.”
“I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, fin...”
“I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.”
“I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.”
“We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.”
“I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short ha...”
“Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.”
“Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think tha...”
“We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirationa...”
“Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I...”
“My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had oth...”
“I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much...”
“At drama school, we were taught to write down your dreams and carry them around in your wallet with you, and they'll come true, but I didn't do that.”
“I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.”
“I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.”
“I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even bet...”
