Grades In School Quotes - Page 3

• I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Smart, Taken

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Teacher, Reading, Book

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I've realized there are far more efficient and devastating methods of disturbing people than merely sloshing around in the pigpen with obvious, profane, scatological, flat-brained, grade-school offensiveness.

  Jim Goad

  School, People, Method

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I remember we had a visit by a helicopter at our school when I was in grade school, and I was punished that day and didn't get to see it. To this day, I am so mad I never got to see that helicopter land! I took my first ride in a helicopter recently, and that's what I thought, "Yes, finally the circle is complete!"

  Larry Wilmore

  School, Land, Circles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got good grades in school, but I did read the dictionary for fun. That was just the kind of stuff that I liked to do. I can't apologize for that.

  Mara Wilson

  Fun, School, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know, the old version was about balancing a checkbook. The new version is about the risks of debt, which is so much more widely available. So I think it's important that we design relevant financial literacy courses, and teach them starting early in grade school.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Thinking, Design

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Morning, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At some point you cannot be the kid in the glass bubble in this world. You might've heard throughout your grade school and high school years that it was a safe, nice, warm, fair, feeling place... but it can get brutal when it gets competitive. Especially when you succeed. Watch the detractors come out of the walls at that point.

  Dennis Miller

  Wall, Nice, School

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• I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, New York, School

  "Chloe Sevigny Men’s Collection". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2009.

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• In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

  Jeff Hawkins

  School, People, United States

  "America’s Shameful Moments" by Jeff Hawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I did plays in grade school.

  Colin Hanks

  School, Play, Grades

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

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• I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

  Patrick Ewing

  School, Thinking, One Day

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• A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

  Adrian Rogers

  Moving, School, People

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• I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

  Alexander Haig

  School, Warrior, Years

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• Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade school in the 1970s, and I recall the poster. But there are times when war is not only a tragic and unavoidable necessity, but also good for children and other living things.

  Dan Savage

  Children, War, School

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• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  Nate Berkus

  Mother, School, Rooms

  "Intriguing people for December 16, 2009" by Jay Kernis, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

  Rhea Seehorn

  Writing, School, College

  "Rhea Seehorn of Better Call Saul: Learning from Loved Ones". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You teach someone about fallopian tubes in grade school, and you revisit it again in seventh grade for a better understanding of that stuff. I think it's never-ending. I don't know why it isn't all the time.

  Jen Kirkman

  School, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Weed, New York, Team

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• Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

  Jesse Helms

  Children, School, Learning

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• I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. September 5, 2000.

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• I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

  Lewis Thomas

  School, College, Attention

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• You can never be too old or too young to be attracted to someone. I still remember my first crush back in grade school.

  Mike Lee

  Love, Crush, Sweet

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• This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

  William Shatner

  Valentine, School, Cards

  "William Shatner Bares His Soul". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

  Gloria Steinem

  Teacher, School, Justice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.145, Open Road Media

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