#school

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#culinary #culinary school #demands #direction #enlisted

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!' ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#atrocious #cause #crowd #encouraged #going

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#drama school #essential #give #ingredient #instinct

I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#bull #cakes #cans #challenge #cold

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#did #down #feel #had #i

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#come #cook #even #ever #food

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#african americans #athletic #award #been #conference

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#certainly #derived #down #i #individual

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression. ↗

— Jim Thome

#door #high #high school #i #impression

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#biggest #ever #go #lie #mississippi