„I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.“
— Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
„School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.“
— Leonardo DiCaprio, http://www.flixster.com/actor/leonardo-di-caprio/leonardo-dicaprio-quotes
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„I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.“
— Stanley Kubrick American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor 1928 - 1999
„Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.“
— Pierre Trudeau 15th Prime Minister of Canada 1919 - 2000
Memoirs (1993), Context: Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. I didn't like to slap backs or other parts of the anatomy. I liked hecklers, because they brought my speeches alive. I liked supporters, because they looked happy. And I really enjoyed mingling with people, if there wasn't too much of it.
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 178
„I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.“
— Dick Gregory American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur 1932 - 2017
Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)
„When I was younger and started acting, I wasn't good at sports and didn't have any other special talents. Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. I always wanted to go to school and become a veterinarian so I think when I got older and suddenly realized that it was my passion, it was just a natural moment. I never felt pushed. My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.“
— Sara Paxton American actress, model and singer 1988
„I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something“
— Peter Jennings News anchor 1938 - 2005
Context: I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.
Interview in Saturday Evening Post, quoted by USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-08-07-jennings-dies_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA (7 August 2005)
„It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school — we had our own little world.“
— Christopher Paolini American author 1983
Context: It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school — we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.
As quoted in "Authors of the month: Christopher Paolini and Flavia Bujor" by Dina Rabinovtich in The Guardian (31 March 2004) http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/mar/31/booksforchildrenandteenagers
„I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.“
— Lou Holtz American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer 1937
„I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.“
— Pierre Trudeau 15th Prime Minister of Canada 1919 - 2000
Memoirs (1993), Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 216
„I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.“
— Galileo Galilei Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564 - 1642
Attributed, As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
„I want to run through the halls of my high school,
I want to scream at the
Top of my lungs.
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world,
Just a lie you've got to rise above.“
— John Mayer guitarist and singer/songwriter 1977
Song lyrics, Room for Squares (2001), No Such Thing
„I never wanted to play for any other country but Australia. I learned my football in Australia. I'm Australian.“
— Bruce Djite Australian soccer player 1987
Bruce Djite (Australia national football team and Adelaide United professional footballer) – Bruce Djite is a Young Socceroo with a difference http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/djite-strikes-out-on-his-own-and-kicks-career-goal/story-e6frg7s6-1111112430089, TheAustralian.com.au, October 28, 2006.
„I never stop learning.“
— Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957
2007, 2008, Berklee College of Music commencement address (May 12, 2007)
„I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.“
— Max Schmeling German boxer 1905 - 2005
On becoming famous. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/fight/peopleevents/p_schmeling.html
„When thou was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.“
— Larry Bird basketball player and coach 1956
Don Wade (October 18, 1997) "A Bird on the Bench is Worth 12,252 In Roberts Stadium Seats", The Evansville Courier, p. C1.
