High School Quotes - Page 5

• In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" and that hit me hard. I don't know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn't seem like an egghead. They told me to talk about sports.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Sports, Book, School

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• My mother always told me that came first. I started modeling in 11th grade and it was something that I did after school and on the weekends. School is so important and modeling should be treated as an extracurricular activity as opposed to a career until you graduate high school.

  Tyra Banks

  Mother, School, Weekend

  Source: www.teen.com

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• I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood.

  Tyra Banks

  Dream, School, Thinking

  "Tyra Banks Chats Modelland & Reveals Which Kardashian’s Gonna Be On Next Season of Top Model (Exclusive Interview!)". Interview with Dan Koday, www.clevver.com. October 25, 2011.

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• In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• My parents were kids when I was born. My mother was 16. My father was 17, and they got married in high school. And they split a few years later. When they split was when all that was happening also, and he - they were just coming into themselves. But they remained friends.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mother, Father, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Gay, straight - whatever - adolescents in high school and coming out of junior high, that's such a difficult, awkward period and kids can be so cruel and mean.

  Mahershala Ali

  School, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Basketball, School, Marine

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Howard Zinn ran what is called the Zinn Education Project. It is a radical, radical bunch of insane lunatic leftists. And there is a project at the Zinn Educational Project: A People's History of Muslims in the United States - What School Textbooks and the Media Miss. And this program is teaching your high school student, juror junior high or middle school student.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Educational, Teaching, School

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• This comes from Mike Gonzalez at the Daily Signal: [ Howard] Zinn's history "set the stage for the grievance mongering that passes for history classes today, and is still widely used. It has sold over 2 million copies since it was first published in 1980 and continues to sell over 100,000 copies a year because it is required reading at many of our high schools and colleges. That's a lot of young minds."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Reading, School, College

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

  Zach Anner

  Hero, Heart, School

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.

  Cedric Yarbrough

  Basketball, Sports, Football

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

  Laila Lalami

  Reading, School

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• For me, I don't do nip or bush. I won't do it. And that's because I talk to numerous young women in high school and I talk to them about owning who they are, and not giving up their sexuality because they have to.

  Ashley Graham

  Giving Up, School, Sexuality

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to these things or I don't go to them. I hate panels. I speak to librarians and to conferences of English teachers. That's what I do: teachers and librarians. And high school kids.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Teacher, Hate, Kids

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.

  Winona Ryder

  Suicide, School, Tragic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Honesty, Real, School

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• My middle school experience was pretty hellish. There was a lot of negativity, a lot of bullying and a lot of insecurity. It was the reason I ended up going to my arts high school because I was pretty bullied.

  Zoey Deutch

  Bullying, Art, School

  "Zoey Deutch and Ry Russo-Young discuss Before I Fall". Interview With Marriska Fernandes, www.tribute.ca. March 2, 2017.

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• My mother didn't feel sorry for herself, she was left with no child support, no alimony at a very young age, with a child to raise, a high school education and she just figured it out. She didn't complain, she didn't rely upon government, she relied upon her own skill set, her own self confidence, her own drive in moxie and her own duty to me and her and she relied upon her family and her faith.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Mother, Sorry, Children

  CPAC Interview, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. February 23, 2017.

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• My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few others, helped kind of instill in me, thinking thoughts about how life is meaningful in terms of how we all kind of live in a network of people and how you interact with those people is part of what makes life essentially meaningful and then kind of concepts to think about, how do you add value to other people's lives? How do they add value to yours? And how do you kind of form a community together in the network?

  Reid Hoffman

  Meaningful, Teacher, School

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at juggling multiple social realities: I could get by no problem in many social arenas (including that of high school), but also felt alienated and totally uninspired by everything that happened there.

  Melissa Febos

  School, Reality, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you conceal inner reality, this pressure builds. You often don't expose yourself until it reaches extremity, a breaking point, and what emerges is a dramatic shift - at least in the eyes of others, from whom you've hidden the truth. So, dropping out of high school was like that for me. I was fine, I got straight As, I had friends, and then boom, I was like, I'm done.

  Melissa Febos

  School, Eye, Reality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I went from a naive, regular girl in high school to trying to realize my dream. When my family moved from the East Coast to California, I thought in my little brain, "Wow, I'm going to Hollywood. I could actually make this happen." It was easier for me to think it's possible living in a place like Los Angeles than trying to do it in suburban Maryland.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Dream, School

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

  Judy Blume

  Dream, Jobs, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We're living in a world where [Judy Blume] books were ever banned, and now like "Fifty Shades of Grey" is being read in high schools. Like it's just a wild.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, School, World

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, School, Heavy

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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