Grades Quotes - Page 2

• I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

  Anthony Mackie

  Hard Work, School, Opportunity

  Interview with Bevy Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

  Ajay Naidu

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

  Merce Cunningham

  Giving, Students

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• It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

  James Marsters

  Art, House, Myopic

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• In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

  David Spade

  Funny, Smart, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

  Stone Gossard

  School, Firsts, Hills

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• I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  School, Trying, Purpose

  "Moving on from Memphis". Interview with Michael Bracewell, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2003.

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• When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

  Woody Harrelson

  Loss, Pages, Environment

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

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• I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

  Levon Helm

  School, Trying, Slowing

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• I never cared what kind of grade I got.

  Shelby Foote

  Kind

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• I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

  Alan Shepard

  Teacher, Smart, Thinking

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• But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

  Ronald Reagan

  School, Patriotic, History

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

  Peter Lynch

  Math, Fifth Grade, Made

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• In grade school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

  Julianne Moore

  Athlete, School, Kids

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

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• I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, Years

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

  Jill Scott

  Practice, Listening, Training

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• I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

  Tia Carrere

  Acting, Kind, Eighth Grade

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

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• Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

  Jeremy London

  School, Eight, Different

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• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Education, School, Prejudice

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• Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Writing, Ladders

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• Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.

  Dennis Wilson

  Running, Baby, Fighting

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• I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

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• We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

  Evelyn Waugh

  School, Class, Literature

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 1, ch. 1

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• I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

  Amy Sedaris

  Stupid, Firsts, Problem

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• I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

  Barry Watson

  Cowboy, Hair, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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