Demetri Martin Quotes

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.

I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

College, for me, was more about wrestling than actually going to classes.

When I was at Oxford, I was a Thatcher child; I was fascinated by politics and I spent three years being obnoxious in the Oxford Union.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time.

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs.

My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.

I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

In high school I was president of the Student Council, and I ended up doing a lot of speeches. After you do a few in front of different schools, you get really comfortable talking in front of an audience.

I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

I love college life.

It is a lot of work when you have to go to school and then try to improve your game at the same time.

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.