Freshman Year Quotes

• I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

  Jim Carrey

  Mean, Kids, Years

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• In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  School, Years, Boston

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• I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

  Sue Grafton

  Summer, Teacher, College

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• My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  School, Math, Years

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• I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.

  Joe Tex

  School, Years, Bowling

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• I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

  Mia Hamm

  Basketball, Soccer, School

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• I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Years, Class, Understanding

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.135, Vintage

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• It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!

  Allyson Felix

  School, Thinking, Years

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• I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.

  Sloane Crosley

  Art, School, Good Day

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• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  E. O. Wilson

  Views, Years, Alabama

  "Transcript of the complete E.O. Wilson interview". blog.cleveland.com. March 01, 2009.

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• I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Ucla, Years, Going Away

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• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Writing, College

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.

  Andy Cohen

  Summer, Children, Attitude

  Andy Cohen (2012). “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture”, p.7, Macmillan

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• I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

  Macklemore

  Sports, Baseball, School

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• [After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my mother had made that I yearned for. But I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand most purely when we are children, when it is a metaphor for all possible feelings of security, of safety, of what is predictable, gentle, and good in life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Home

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• Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dog, College, Years

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.440, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!

  Regina King

  Running, School, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

  Heather Morris

  Dad, Years, Dancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.

  Ryan Reynolds

  God, Daughter, Years

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• Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory - and I'm so sorry to have to admit this - but there was a Domino's Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.

  Adam Richman

  Sorry, College, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

  Molly Tarlov

  School, Years, Freshman

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• I found in general, I got involved in that station toward the end of my freshmen year, and I just loved how there's this incredible library of music that I'd never heard of from all over the world and different genres.

  Chris Baio

  Years, Library, Different

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• The fans may be surprised to know that during my freshman year at Oglethorpe, I waited on tables and never made an error, never dropped a tray nor broke a dish.

  Luke Appling

  Errors, Years, Fans

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• There are jobs here in Baltimore, but the problem is we don't have skilled people. Like the Port Covington initiative - that's 20 years out. I instituted initiatives as mayor that called for equities for minorities, increase minority opportunities, training. It's a good model to duplicate. Everybody doesn't want to go to college. A lot of our vocational programs don't have the latest technology. Students should begin freshman year in high school working on a plan for graduation - either going into an apprenticeship or college.

  Sheila Dixon

  School, Technology, Opportunity

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• In high school, I was one of the cofounders of New Kids on the Block my freshman year in high school. But I also started studying theatre in high school my freshman year as well. So throughout high school, I was actually doing both.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Block, School, Kids

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