Quotes About School

Mr. Obama is the first president to have grown up in the region - he lived in Indonesia as an elementary school student - and he has never doubted that America is underinvested in Asia and overinvested in the Middle East.

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

Immediately after school, I did a lot of regional theater. I was in Berkeley and Princeton and Minneapolis and all over the country doing wonderful plays for the local audiences.

I was bullied at school, and I let that get hold of me and withdrew into myself - I regret letting that happen.

I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.

I was so involved in the regular joy of school that I didn't do any plays. On a dare, I auditioned for 'South Pacific' my junior year. I showed up at the last minute to the audition and ended up getting cast as the lead. I haven't turned back since then.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun.

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

I loved getting tutored and having that one-on-one attention that you sometimes do not get in regular school.

I went to a regular school... education kept me sane.

I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

I always felt that I had a childhood. I went to regular school whenever I wasn't working. At one point, I wanted to be a marine biologist.

My schedule won't allow me to go to regular school, but I did love public school, and I did experience my first year of middle school in a regular school.

Business leaders regularly complain that young people don't leave school with the right skills. Encouraging young people to be entrepreneurs makes the connection between school and the world of work, teaching them about practical thinking, team-work, communication and financial literacy.

Harvard is nerd rehab. You have to check yourself in. Those who seek a school filled with self-proclaimed 'nerds,' seek elsewhere. Dropping the H bomb may brand you as an intellectual or a Kennedy. But it will not give you much nerd cred. And that's a good thing.

Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

My dad worked for a theatre company that was two minutes away from my primary school, so I'd just walk there after school and watch the rehearsals. I think that's probably when I fell in love with acting and telling stories.

I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.

I got rejected from journalism school!

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

Drama school should set you up for failure in a really positive way, because your life as an actor is going to be rejection and it also should train you not be afraid of success either.

When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.