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school figures ifs
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. Alan Watts
school hard-work church
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. Alan Paton
school age taught
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. Alan Moore
school opportunity thinking
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
school ideas forgotten
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. Alan Bennett
school boys oxford
My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
school care students
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball
school exercise keys
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time. Alan Alda
school thinking lasts
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
parent religion indifferent
The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid. Charles Dickens
parent kind theater
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident. Alan Rickman
parent pious
My parents are deeply pious Hindus. Akhil Sharma
parenthood checks planned-parenthood
I never wrote a check to Planned Parenthood. Chris Christie
parent age pressure
My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going. David Schwimmer
parent projection
Your parents are your projection-nothing more. Byron Katie
parent musician
Both of my parents were musicians. Bryan White
parent wanted accountants
My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant. Bruno Tonioli
parents tap trying word
We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource. John Whiting
groups camps
I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp. Akshay Kumar
groups care littles
In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward. David Shields
groups local seeing shift sponsors state structured supported
We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,
groups key names solid stocks
There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.
groups sometimes individual
Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from. L. Neil Smith
groups money people pick stakes whenever
Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.
groups join money motivated motivation possible raise rights surprise suspicious wanting
Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.
groups incentives
We're going after the incentives market, and we're going to be going after the smaller, upscale groups business.
groups iraq mass saddam terrorists war whom
So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links. Rory Bremner