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" A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. "

James S. Coleman

" As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates. "

Patricia Heaton

" As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall. "

" At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music. "

" Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone. "

" Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked. "

" Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy. "

George A. Romero

" I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates. "

" I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl. "

" I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives. "

" I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers. "

Benjamin Clementine

" If you film a little boy going to school, the big event in that boy's day and all the classmates' and teachers' day is you being there filming, not the school. "

Joshua Oppenheimer

" I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful. "

Kerry Greenwood

" I have members of my family who are in the military. I have friends who are in the military. Classmates who served in the military. "

" I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork. "

Natalie Portman

" I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business. "

Kenneth Chenault

" In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of classmates who would speculate whether adults in their lives were supernatural beings. I read literally every single book in the series. "

" I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age. "

" I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.' "

Stephen Hawking

" I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein. "

" I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement. "

" I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business. "

" I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were. "

" I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers. "

" I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish. "

John David Washington

" I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today. "

" Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. "

" My biggest phobia is spiders. When I was in second grade, one of my classmates got bitten. That did it for me. "

" My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom. "

Yves Saint Laurent

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