Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naomi Klein

It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy -- like a national oil company -- held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist.

Nadia Comaneci

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

Mitchell Kapor

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

Mike Piazza

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living

R. Buckminster Fuller

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

Priyanka Chopra

I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.

Princess Diana

I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it.

Preston Manning

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

Prabal Gurung

I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

Poppy Montgomery

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

Portia de Rossi

At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, "Marry me!," very loud.

Portia de Rossi

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

NeNe Leakes

I was very popular in high school.

Nelson Mandela

I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.

Nelson Mandela

Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.

Nelson Mandela

The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.

Kristi Yamaguchi

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

Kristen Wiig

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.

Kristin Armstrong

It truly is a little intimidating to go speak at a middle school. Sure, on one hand the kids are only around 13 years old, but on the other hand, merely going back there reactivates the dorky, miserable feeling of being that age again. It isn't easy. As soon as I arrived I could almost feel the braces on my teeth, the don't-look-at-me slouch of my shoulders, the feathered wings of my bangs.

Kristen Stewart

Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.

Kristen Stewart

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

Kristen Stewart

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.

Kristen Stewart

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

Kristen Stewart

I went to public school up until junior high.

Kris Allen

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

Kris Allen

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

Oprah Winfrey

"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

Oprah Winfrey

I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

Olivier Theyskens

I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

Olivia Wilde

I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.