Growing up I was encouraged to get a good education get a real job doing something I enjoyed and should the opportunity present itself consider public service as just that: a chance to serve not an end in itself.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

I had never done anything with blue screen before or prosthetics or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But to be honest I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous which is acting and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics and I think math is the cat's meow.

There is nothing of any consequence in education in the economy in city planning in social policy that does not concern black people.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing has no education no money lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another through sheer force of will he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it and therefore character is dependent upon education and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

We will invest in our people quality education job opportunity family neighborhood and yes a thing we call America.

Religion is not only a part of education an element of humanity but the center of everything else always the first and the ultimate the absolutely original.

Since my education I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

My father is a real idealist and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning my father would spare no expense.

In the new economy information education and motivation are everything.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything from speaking to dying.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Television could perform a great service in mass education but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories from education to infrastructure.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young from their education to their successful independence to their sexual self-knowledge.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.