Grades Quotes - Page 18

• When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

  David Morse

  Teacher, School, Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Summer camp was a place where I felt like myself that wasn't like school. There were no grades, we got to try lots of new things, and I started to play guitar at camp. It was a place for acceptance and learning to be a part of a community, but also learning to be yourself. I want that for all kids, but some kids don't have the opportunity to go to camp. I want to help.

  Lisa Loeb

  Summer, Being Yourself, School

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• In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade. I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition free.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, College, Economy Today

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• I mean, growing up in New Orleans when you're in seventh and eighth grade and you're into music and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock. It definitely speaks to our dorkiness and the similar hometown that we grew up in, the similar sort of schooling we went through and friends we had.

  Steve Zissis

  Growing Up, Mean, New Orleans

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, tv.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth grade - so about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark.

  Pete Docter

  Moving, Ideas, Way

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.

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• Every year my mom takes her 5th grade class on an outdoor education trip, and ever since I was born, I came with her. One thing I remember the most was this long, old rickety bridge held by two redwood trees. In order to get to the camp fire, you had to cross it. Each time I went across I made my brother carry me on his shoulders. It freaked me out sooooo much, even a little now when I think about it.

  Zendaya

  Mom, Brother, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.

  Aeriel Miranda

  School, Years, People

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• Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate worship is good- but for me, I get very bored in Church trying to worship.

  Reese Roper

  Song, Reading, People

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• These are for people above my pay grade to answer, but if it's popular - and I think it's going to be - then sure, you'll see a lot. There is an unending number of battles we could cover and send up in ways that the fans and we would love them.

  Phil Morris

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: 411mania.com

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• You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Teacher, School, Math

  "Some Educators Question If Advanced Math Should Be Required". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. March 3, 2016.

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• I've been recording myself since grade 10. Back then, it was just really crappy rock stuff.

  Ryan Hemsworth

  Rocks, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  People, Leaving, Fifth Grade

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

  Mark Kozelek

  Artist, Thinking, Helping

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.

  Zach Condon

  Cutting, Class, Years

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Home, Ideas, Firsts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

  Antonio Damasio

  Focus, Consciousness, Streams

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.

  T. J. Miller

  Kids, Names, Firsts

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.

  Quentin Tarantino

  School, Class, Play

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest furiously French kissing when I was in seventh grade. I walked in, saw it, and went, "No way," backed out, composed myself, and went back in, and it was still going on. And the experience of seeing that was actually very deep.

  George Saunders

  Kissing, Boys, Way

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Military, Team

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

  Yukmouth

  Artist, Years, Careers

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• I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Girl, Church, Irritated

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa culture so it's hard not to do it if you like sports.

  Robbie Lawler

  Sports, Wrestling, Thinking

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

  Dave Barry

  Hands, Years, People

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

  Michael Steger

  School, Kids, Years

  "‘90210’ Star Michael Steger Opens Up About Childhood Bullying: ‘You Feel Like You’re Going To Die’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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