The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

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KELLY JONES

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about m...
EMINEM I prefer my circle small but solid than big and hollow
JODEL AREVALO Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and capt...
JOHN W. ROGERS, JR.

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learn...
PETER ACKROYD

I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am ...
ELI BROAD My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
D'ARCY CARDEN

I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

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AISHA TYLER I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.
BRIAN MCBRIDE I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any ...
IM DONG-HYUN

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SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH The NCAA made the general public more aware of women's sports. But we still need more opportunities ...
DEB VERCAUTEREN We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and t...
IRWIN ROSE

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many...
MICHAEL KORDA I personally enjoy it because I've spent my life in the library. I was the director at the library a...
JOSEPHINE FIDLER

I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and ...
JOHN WOOLMAN

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IZABEL GOULART I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr...
MAHESH BABU

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C.S. LEWIS

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ROSIE PEREZ I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In ...
OLGA FONDA Most of my years there were only two of us in my grade. So I know something about small schools.
EDUCATION COMMISSIONER RICHARD CATE I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very...
ED O'NEILL I think my friends are impressed that I win awards for sports at 89. They say, 'Oh, you're a role mo...
JEAN BRUNNENKANT Editor:"Donation To Penn State to Field Div-I Hockey Teams,” 9.18.10: Athletics play a role in the...
GENE DETROYER My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I ...
TEDDY SEARS I was just e-mailing a few friends about events that were useful or fun and now my friends of 20 or ...
CRAIG NEWMARK That was the (coach) Leon Fuller era, ... I missed CU, but I enjoyed my time at CSU, also. There wer...
LARRY ZIMMER

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PHILIPPE PETIT

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GEORGE ELIOT Despite my living in Virginia, we saw a great deal of each other and supported each other through ou...
DENNIS VAUGHN I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... reall...
PAULA DANZIGER In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step ou...
ROSIE PEREZ As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I di...
DAVID CALL I used to chop up C-Span soundbites or interviews with politicians like John Kerry or Bill Clinton i...
AWKWAFINA I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of ...
ALEXANDER CHEE I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there'...
EDMUND HILLARY At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close fr...
DANIEL NATHANS I enjoyed reading the book. I think the story line is interesting and holds your attention. For us t...
DEREK STAPLES I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in p...
ZACH BRAFF I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless...
GLEN DUNCAN The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel...
KEVIN PLANK Over the course of that morning, I started hearing from a lot of Tribune readers, both on the phone ...
MARY SCHMICH My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there wer...
SANTIAGO CABRERA I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they...
FLORENCE GREEN The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I grew up in San Diego in a non-athletic environment. My parents were not interested in sports. Thei...
BILL WALTON Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my des...
ROBERT BLOCH I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not...
TOM FORD My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its...
MICHAEL SMITH I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by m...
UZO ADUBA I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rar...
MATT CZUCHRY I'd spent my twenties trying to be everything to everybody. I had my family, my straight friends...
DAVID FURNISH I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I There were a number of reasons why I was back. Part of it is my love for racing. My preference was t...
DEREK INGALLS I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they gr...
EMILY BETT RICKARDS I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my siste...
BEN SIMMONS And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as frie...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a w...
THOMAS H. COOK I feel like it's my sports arena. I play basketball and baseball and competitive sports, but I feel ...
JUSTIN PENTICUFF I was born in LeMoyne Gardens and grew up in South Memphis where I attended Florida, Walker and Ford...
BISHOP MARCELL WRIGHT JR I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.
JOE NAMATH For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
DAVID HAREWOOD My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. ...
BRYAN STEVENSON I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonabl...
WALTER JON WILLIAMS Rarely do you get dominated at home. I thought we looked frustrated and didn't respond well to adver...
KEVIN DINEEN I started going by myself; I was a single girl, and all my friends were married. It was a great way ...
LINDA POWELL I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSI My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me a...
HATTIE MCDANIEL I enjoyed both (running back and linebacker). I enjoyed sports so much. Hitting people period was al...
KRIS WALTER From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawr...
ELIAS JAMES COREY My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
VERNON JORDAN Except for a short period at the end of World War II, I attended an elementary school affiliated to ...
RYOJI NOYORI I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle ...
KARA LINDSAY I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is...
LINDA SANCHEZ I used to put down my experiences and beliefs and e-mail them to friends ever since I was a freshman...
AARON KARO The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professiona...
HERBERT HOOVER I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our ...
SLOANE CROSLEY It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back ag...
HENRY ROLLINS It's a tremendous honor, but I played with some great players and coached some great players. We alw...
JIM FOWLER Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by readin...
ERIC KANDEL My preference is to keep him. He's done an awesome job. When the season's over, we'll sit down and t...
JEFF HESTER I really enjoyed my time in Philadelphia, and I want to thank my teammates and the fans for a heck o...
JIM THOME I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing t...
JACK MCBRAYER Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I ...
BLAKE SHELTON I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, th...
KATHARINE GRAHAM I was one of those kids who did a lot of homework, and my favorite thing was reading, ... Both my pa...
CHRISTOPHER ANDERSEN Penn was a lot of fun. I miss it. I really enjoyed my whole time there ... friends, school, going ou...
ARTIE BARTHOLOMEW I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSI I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnast...
NICOLE ANDERSON I think we did an interesting and inspiring rendition.
SCOTT WEILAND All four of my grandparents come to my games. I have my own little fan club. My sisters and I got al...
AUSTIN RAUGHT My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some...
TIM HUNT When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and histo...
ADAM HAMILTON It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthda...
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I ca...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more ex...
MARCO RUBIO More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humili...
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HAROLD RAMIS The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
HAROLD TAYLOR If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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HAROLD PRINCE I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move th...
HAROLD PRINCE I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
HAROLD PRINCE I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really c...
HAROLD PERRINEAU I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had e...
HAROLD PERRINEAU You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by ...
HAROLD PERRINEAU The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
HAROLD NICOLSON We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
HAROLD NICOLSON I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
HAROLD MACMILLAN No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN It's no use crying over spilt summits.
HAROLD MACMILLAN (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
HAROLD MACMILLAN When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN To be alive at all involves some risk.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better...
HAROLD MACMILLAN I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

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