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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.
olives lucky caviar
Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty. Anton Chekhov
olives call-me
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered. George Herbert
olives lightning annabeth
They chose the olive" "They must really like olives" "Forget it" "Now if she invented pizza that i can understand" -Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif Rick Riordan
losing flight best-work
When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone Chris Cooper
losing million multiply per
We are losing turnover of about $1.3 million per day ... So you have to multiply that by 17 or 18 days. Louis Honore
losing tough
We started off by losing a tough one at 103 and we rebounded well with Javier and Mariano (Portillo) having big wins.
losing soul
If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul
losing piece towards
I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels. Holly Holm
losing sometimes like-you
Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something. Eliza Dushku
losing stop trying
We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money). Howard Schultz
losing remember
Yeah, I remember us losing a 16-point lead.
losing understand whether winning
Whether we're on a three-game winning or losing streak, you can understand that that's not everything.