3,403 Quotes About School

  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

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  • Author Luther Vandross
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    All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

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  • Author Ned Vizzini
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    I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

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  • Author Sarah Vowell
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    Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?

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  • Author Sofia Vergara
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    You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

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