Non-Traditional Paths Quotes

I don't feel like I should just be a rapper. That's boring to me.

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.

I am very much aware that I am considered a 'strong woman.' And I am also aware that that is only because I had a child outside wedlock.

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

School was never for me, kinda.

The French higher education system has not adapted to this revolutionary period. [It] rewards people for their capacity to follow the path that is open to them. It does not encourage people to rebel or to develop their character.

In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train the subalterns for routine jobs. They certainly do not train entrepreneurs.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

I'd have worked with an orchestra, been a chef, or a zoo keeper.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

You don't have to get married and have a family, like a lot of women try, to live the American Dream. There's nothing wrong if you're in your 40s and don't have kids and are president of your own company.

I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

I snowboard because I love it. It's just a cool way to be out there and doing something different instead of going to college.