High School Quotes - Page 14

• I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, School, Way

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• If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

  Suze Orman

  Senior, Children, Spring

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• I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Queens, School, College

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• I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

  Mandy Patinkin

  School, Boys, House

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• What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

  James Patterson

  School, Kids, People

  "Surviving Summer Camp In James Patterson's 'Middle School'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 22, 2013.

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• I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.

  James Patterson

  Jobs, Crazy, Book

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• What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

  Gregory Peck

  School, Gnarly, Feet

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• I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

  Amanda Peet

  School, Boys, Thinking

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• I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

  Katy Perry

  Real, School, Thinking

  "Katy Perry's High School Memories". www.seventeen.com. August 18, 2010.

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• In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!

  Matthew Perry

  School, Night, Guy

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• I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

  Matthew Perry

  Senior, School, Kids

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• According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

  Rick Perry

  School, College, Texas

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• Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

  Michael Phelps

  Mom, School, Golf

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• Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, School, Comforting

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• As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.

  Nicole Polizzi

  School, Thinking, People

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• I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

  Iggy Pop

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

  Paula Poundstone

  School, Voice, Giving

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

  Dennis Prager

  School, College, Perspective

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• When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

  Elvis Presley

  School, Boys, Boots

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• The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kids, School, Talking

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• I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

  Christopher Reeve

  Summer, School, College

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• I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

  John C. Reilly

  School, Swings, Dragons

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• Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

  Jason Reitman

  School, Past, People

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. December 15, 2011.

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• You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Missing You, Giving Up, School

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• After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

  Chris Rock

  School, College, Years

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