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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would. -- Mary Leakey
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam. -- George Carlin
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results. -- Richard Dawkins
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam. -- Jennifer Granholm
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. -- Bill Gates
I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.' -- Laura Mvula
Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don't Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can't Decide My Future -- Thomas A. Edison
I crammed my exams in London and did fine. -- Rhona Mitra
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race. -- Johann Lamont
Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam. -- Abraham Verghese
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret -- Leo Buscaglia
If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do. -- Lois Aileen Bey
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. -- Roddy Doyle
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. -- Karl von Frisch
I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate. -- Daniela Hantuchova
I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam. -- Carre Otis
Some things are sent to test us. Clearly you must be good at problem solving if you are being set tough exams. -- Jan Hellriegel
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams. -- Kenneth H. Cooper
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. -- Woody Allen
Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House. -- Hedy Lamarr
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage. -- Edith Evans
Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers. -- Charles W. Pickering
The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm. -- Jimmy McGill
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school. -- David Bailey
I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam. -- Giuliana Rancic
If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. -- Bill Gates
Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done. -- Len Dawson
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me. -- Paul Nurse
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along. -- Tom Chatfield
My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual. -- Abraham Verghese
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. -- Terry Pratchett
Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma. -- Sarah Sutton
I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil. -- Rick Riordan
Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade. -- Rob Brydon
Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention. -- Alexandra Adornetto
Most women don't do regular breast self examinations, mainly because they are either intimidated by what they might find, or they're confused as to how to do the self exam correctly. 'Liv Aid' eliminates all of these concerns because it makes breast self exams easy to perform. -- Olivia Newton-John
I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising. -- John Hurt
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown. -- Cam Newton
I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths, so I quite fancied a career in forensics or something like that. But I bet if you put a maths exam paper in front of me now I wouldn't have a clue. -- Nikki Sanderson
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation. -- Jack Ma
You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop. -- Wilbur Smith
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I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a Chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of Harry Potter didn't help much, and I fared poorly. -- Sonam Kapoor
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. -- Nina Bawden
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race." -- Johann Lamont
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam. -- Bobby Fischer
I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere. -- Steven Herrick
We all knew the exam we were going to sit this week. -- Paul McGinley
Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam. -- Alan Blinder
In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end. -- Anna Quindlen
But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn. -- Robert Fulghum
Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam. -- Patrick Henry
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam. -- Joel Garreau
After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism -- Niall Ferguson
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life. -- Robert Kiyosaki
A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam. -- Doug Larson
Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine. -- Jim Gaffigan
Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain. -- Tariq Ramadan
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. -- Mordecai Richler
Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out. -- Homer
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different. -- Albert Einstein
There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder. -- Allen Frances
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank. -- Criss Jami
Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean. -- Terry Pratchett
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare. -- Lesley Nicol
I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him. -- Woody Hayes
Do you know who will be in charge of health care? The IRS. You thought getting audited was bad? Wait until your next prostate exam. -- Jay Leno
The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not. -- David Foster Wallace
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft. -- Bill Gates
When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly of castration. -- J.R. Ward
New rule: Stop calling it Obamacare. It's not like Obama will be the doctor for your next prostate exam. That's just a common fantasy of Republican men. -- Bill Maher
To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again. -- Ronald Kessler
I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium. -- Jeffrey Tate
No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it. -- Moffat Machingura
Youâ??re pretty smart for a Fed.â? â??I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency, -- Diana Rowland
If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk. -- Warren Buffett
The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all. -- John Green
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work. -- Peter Higgs
Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography and whole breast screening ultrasound, annual breast MRI, and biannual clinical breast exam. -- Kristi Funk

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