High School Quotes - Page 37

• Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, School, Mean

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

  Joe Baca

  School, Special, Needs

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• I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.

  Mario Cantone

  Morning, School, Sleep

  "Standup Mario Cantone won't miss his bus to the Hard Rock". Interview with Rod Stafford Hagwood, www.sun-sentinel.com. October 10, 2012.

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• God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.

  Mark Driscoll

  Girl, Mother, Jesus

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• Of course, I was a head coach at high school for 15 years, so as far as on the field stuff it's the same but for college football it's off the field experience you got to get used to. It was a great learning experience for me, I learned a lot and I feel very prepared coming in here.

  Gus Malzahn

  Football, School, College

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• How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

  Frank Shorter

  School, Easy, Miles

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• My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.

  George Foreman

  Basketball, Team, School

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• I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

  Chris Rock

  School, Yearbook, Loner

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• Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story meeting with studio executives with no particular ability or actors who haven't even graduated high school telling you exactly how to change your script, you haven't experienced what it's really like to be a screenwriter in Hollywood. Also, unlike novelists and playwrights, you don't own the copyright on your original material. It hurts when you sell a project you love and then suddenly the project you really cared about will never see the light of day.

  Amy Holden Jones

  Hurt, School, Light

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• I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in

  Harvey Pekar

  School, Kids, Ems

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media. Similarly you look at those blacks that have gone on to college or finished college, the incarceration rate is some tiny fraction of what it is among those blacks who have dropped out of high school. So it’s not being black; it’s a way of life. Unfortunately, the way of life is being celebrated not only in rap music, but among the intelligentsia, is a way of life that leads to a lot of very big problems for most people.

  Thomas Sowell

  Couple, Rap, School

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• In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

  Carlos Slim

  School, Culture, Mexico

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• In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

  James Rainwater

  School, Chemistry, Physics

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• My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Home, School, Science

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• Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

  Richard Ernst

  School, Technology, Zurich

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• You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Education, School

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• Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.

  Elton Gallegly

  Moving, School, College

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• That taught me how to work harder. I learned all about mental toughness on the practice field. If things weren't working out for me in high school, in college, early in my pro career, my solution was always to work harder and internalize. That way, whenever I got an opportunity, I was always prepared. See, there are a lot of guys who are all talk. They say they want to work harder and be the best, but they never pay the price. I love paying the price.

  Tom Brady

  Hard Work, School, Opportunity

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• Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, School, Minnesota

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• In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school

  Gaylord Nelson

  Teacher, School, Giving

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• Their high school football is some of the best in the country.

  Sylvester Croom

  Football, Country, School

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• Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.

  Rachel Maddow

  School, Years, Car

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", April 03, 2009.

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• The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

  Vic Snyder

  School, Opportunity, Rocks

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• I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

  Mary Cheney

  School, Different, Made

  Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books

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• The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.

  Greg Gutfeld

  School, Kids, World

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.7, Crown Forum

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