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Formal Quotes
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I don’t think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn’t like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. (Formal Quotes)
I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - intelligence usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education. (Formal Quotes)
Hogan began when tastes were changing and people were moving away from clothes that were not so formal: Hogan caught the right moment. (Formal Quotes)
Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica. (Formal Quotes)
The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught. (Formal Quotes)
I’m the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don’t only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways. (Formal Quotes)
Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, I went to college with every person I ever met. (Formal Quotes)
My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today’s college graduates and Ph.D.’s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe. (Formal Quotes)
I think the process of ‘SNL’ is still pretty formal. You make an audition tape, your agent sends it in, they watch people’s tapes, and then they invite people to perform at a comedy club in Los Angeles or New York. But I don’t know how much actual scouting they do online. (Formal Quotes)
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don’t have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct. (Formal Quotes)
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense. (Formal Quotes)
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. (Formal Quotes)
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. (Formal Quotes)
By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn’t work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended. (Formal Quotes)
I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it! (Formal Quotes)
In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling. (Formal Quotes)
People aren’t used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the ‘text’ in literary terms. (Formal Quotes)
I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I’m usually one of the first out there on the dance floor. Although I haven’t had any formal dance training and something tells me I’m really going to notice the difference. (Formal Quotes)
For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not ‘wardrobe,’ but rather policy on women’s issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse. (Formal Quotes)
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. (Formal Quotes)
I think most of us would agree that people who have, say, little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect - and help, if necessary - than many people who are superficially more successful. (Formal Quotes)
Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France). (Formal Quotes)
It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930’s and 40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual. (Formal Quotes)
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. (Formal Quotes)
In life two negatives don’t make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse. (Formal Quotes)
The best way to prepare for life is acombination of formal traditional education, reading, seminars,and workshops, coupled with experience as well as tapping into the knowledge of experienced people. (Formal Quotes)
Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life’s structure may rest and rise. (Formal Quotes)
I haven’t had any formal education. Through the grace of God, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. (Formal Quotes)
I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don’t have any formal education and can’t teach at the universities like other literary writers do. (Formal Quotes)
By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted. (Formal Quotes)