#grad

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#books #christmas #did #dummy #eight

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#college #graduated #had #humiliating #i

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#army #basket #cat #dad #doubling

Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#creation #downgrade #economy #face #further

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. ↗

— William Glasser

#even #good #grade #help #help others

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#cannot #degree #even #finger #invariably