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I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

It's hard to swallow when people say, "Oh my God, you're a master of something." I say, "No, I'm actually a student of that. I could turn you on to websites for 25 masters, and you'll quickly see that I am their disciple.

It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital.

It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story. You would pick up the magazines and you would be taught from the magazines how to write a short story. Nowadays student writers are learning to write novels because that market is gone, so the ones who are drawn to the form are doing it really for reasons of their own and that's really exciting.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.

I've benefited greatly from studying many effective people from history. Among those who've influenced me the most are Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. Each of the three altered history; each was self-created to a great extent; and each was a great student of history and leadership.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

I was always a very good student.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I was certainly very much involved in the activities that occurred on campus. It was part of an extraordinary period in my life

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

I was a good student in school.

I was always on the outside. It was the worst when I still wanted to be a professor, having to deal with colleagues and students, and having to listen to all that academic nonsense. It's really just a haze that keeps them busy. But all of that is fortunately over now, once and for all.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

I wasn’t a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody.  I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study.

I wasn't a great student, C average. I was pretty shy, but I drank a lot of beer.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

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 a disinterested student.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.