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Classmates Quotes

Classmates Quotes

1. 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

2. My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. -
Michelle Obama

3. I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork. - Natalie Portman

4. I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were. - Erno Rubik

5. 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.- Shakira

6. I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand. - Manisha Koirala

7. My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch. - Abhijit Banerjee.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.