High School Quotes - Page 36

• I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

  H. L. Hunt

  School, Thinking, Hunting

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• In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

  Joanna Newsom

  School, Math, Rhyming

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

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• I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

  Anthony Doerr

  Fun, School, Maturity

  "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the winning touchdown pass in High School. I don't want to be that guy. Racing gives us all the chance to be athletes again.

  Don Panoz

  Athlete, School, Winning

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• I was seventeen and the star of my high school play. I was supposed to kiss my leading man, but I couldn't stand the guy. I really didn't want to kiss him. All during rehearsals, I refused to kiss him. Then my drama teacher told me, "If you don't kiss him on opening night, you'll flunk drama class. So I kissed him, and that was my first kiss.

  Donna Mills

  Teacher, Stars, Drama

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• I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

  Piper Perabo

  School, Getting High, Sides

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• That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

  Steve Mariucci

  Kids, School, College

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• When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

  Blair Underwood

  Business, School, Talking

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• I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

  Gretchen Mol

  School, Thinking, Musical

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• I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Senior, Sports, Spring

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• In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

  Sherman Alexie

  Dad, Anger, Heart

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• To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Girl, School, Hard Times

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• As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Art, Children, School

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• My Daddy was left-handed, and I was left-handed when I was little. In fact, I was left-handed all the way to high school. Then I switched over to right-handed cause I wanted to play shortstop.

  Luke Appling

  School, Play, Daddy

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• They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.

  Debora Spar

  School, Kids, Fighting

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• I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

  Tommy Rettig

  Fun, School, Wanted

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• H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway -- you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective.

  Howard Waldrop

  Summer, Senior, Jobs

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• People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

  Paul Tough

  School, College, People

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

  Dana Spiotta

  School, Trying, Acting

  "In 'Arabia,' Writing Life As You Wish You'd Lived It". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

  Ansel Elgort

  School, People, Broadway

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• I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Writing, School, College

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• I had a weird high school because I graduated early when I was 16. I moved out to California, but I was only there for freshman and sophomore year, and I was a bit of a brainiac.

  Shanley Caswell

  School, Years, California

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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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• I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did!

  Sarah Roemer

  Cheer, Fun, School

  "Co-stars 'Fired Up' over cheerleading". Orlando Sentinel interview, articles.chicagotribune.com. February 20, 2009.

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• Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

  Bill de Blasio

  School, College, Would Be

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

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