Jerry Hall Quotes

I'm a child of academics.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

I was a super nerd in school.

I stood as well as any in my class, but the test of scholarship at that day was contemptible

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

I was a nerdy student.

He's just intelligent-sort of a nerd, actually. He's the only brother I know who made a 1420 on the SAT. I don't think Chris Dudley did that, and Mr. Smarty Pants went to Yale. Kobe doesn't hang out. He doesn't go to the clubs. He doesn't ride around. He doesn't put rims on his car. He's just him. He's a sophisticated kid. Damn mature for his age.

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

Universities are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

My brother has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, which I find so totally impressive.

When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.