Quotes of: Private-schools Keyword

Doing well in school was a cool thing to do when I was in high school, so I had a blast.

Monica Raymund

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

Stephen Sprouse

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

James Cronin

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

Cecily Strong

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

Dorothy Malone

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

Ami Bera

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

Erin Cummings

My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.

Jane McGonigal

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

Bobby Flay

It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy app...

Cancer Ward

Alarm clocks were going off in the city now. One after another, sometimes two or three together, they drove their small silver knives into the body of the great dream that sprawled naked on the housetops. Sensual, amiable, and defenseless as it was, ...

A Fine and Private Place

A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have real...

The Outline of Sanity

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. (A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow t...

Tim Scott

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortab...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximall...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average p...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from priv...

Anthony Weiner

The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing hi...

Rudy Giuliani

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Are you shook up? Are you nervous? Private Cowboy: Sir, I am, sir. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Do I make you nervous? Private Cowboy: Sir? Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: "Sir" what? Were you about to call me an asshole?

Full Metal Jacket

[at the Firing Range, Pvt. Pyle is shooting at the targets, doing an impressive job while Hartman watches] Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Outstanding, Private Pyle. I think we finally found something that you do well. Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, yes, sir!

Full Metal Jacket