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Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied. -- Louise Rennison
What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied. -- Maureen Johnson
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams. -- Jonathan Kozol
For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first. -- Lily James
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. -- Karl von Frisch
Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not. -- Mark McKinnon
I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic. -- Cat Deeley
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 wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup? -- Gordon Smith
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
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
Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities. -- Martha Beck
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'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams. -- Rupert Graves
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
The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case. -- Terry Wogan
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake. -- Maeve Binchy
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve. -- Michael Gove
I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone. -- Billy Childish
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail. -- Michael Morpurgo
All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came. -- Rebel Wilson
I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present. -- Hugh Jackman
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language. -- Michio Kaku
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 was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on. -- David Rudisha
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I crammed my exams in London and did fine. -- Rhona Mitra
When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. -- Eric Topol
Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels. -- Hayley Mills
I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia. -- Ozzy Osbourne
When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams. -- Hanna Rosin
I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate. -- Daniela Hantuchova
You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk! -- Chris Oyakhilome
Some things are sent to test us. Clearly you must be good at problem solving if you are being set tough exams. -- Jan Hellriegel
Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students. -- L. Todd Rose
To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies. -- Bill Gates
If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests. -- Dan Shechtman
I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance. -- Julie Payette
The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy. -- Siobhan Dowd
... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams." -- Paul Halmos
We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed. -- John Grisham
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
You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction. -- James Tiptree Jr.
I was in college for two years but I didnÂ´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams. -- Gautam Adani
The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty -- Sunday Adelaja
I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course. -- Warren Ellis
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too. -- Elizabeth Hurley
During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ. -- TobyMac
A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer. -- Gilbert Gottfried

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