I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.
I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.
I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.
I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.
'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.
We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.
