High School Quotes - Page 5

• For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last position was about $122,000. For a guy without a high school diploma, that's pretty good.

  Edward Snowden

  School, Careers, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I made the Dixie Heights High School baseball team as an 8th grader and went on to have a very successful career. I was all state both my junior and senior years leading our team 3 district championships and 1 regional championship in 2001 which hadn't happened since 1991. My number has since been retired at Dixie Heights and a banner hangs from the outfield fence with my name and number on it.

  Graham Taylor

  Senior, Baseball, Team

  "MILB Interview: Graham Taylor (Jacksonville Suns, Miami Marlins)". Intreview with Justin Godsey, hotseatsports.wordpress.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, College

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

  Judd Apatow

  Athlete, School, Comedian

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Reading, Writing

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". Interview with Peter Sagal, wvasfm.org. January 21, 2017.

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• Maybe it's just L.A., but [high school girls] look like men, like they would have kids and s - t.

  Seth Rogen

  Girl, School, Kids

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• I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.

  George Carlin

  Teaching, Mean, School

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  School, Able, Saws

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• I never imagined getting to do what I love for a living and having so many people appreciate it. There was only one other skater in my high school and we were the lowest form of cool. Our classmates couldn't figure out why we liked such a loser sport, or why we hadn't grown out of it yet.

  Tony Hawk

  Sports, School, People

  Kidzworld Interview, www.kidzworld.com.

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• The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

  Toni Morrison

  School, Writing, College

  Interview With Chloe Brooks, theharvardadvocate.com. April 13, 2016.

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• The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something. Do you know what it's like to be a Madame in Paris, when you're too old to have any clients. No, you don't. I don't either. Write about it.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, School, College

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• For me, being a rap fan and the nostalgia of me being a kid, rappers and guys on the street told me everything to wear. That was it. I didn't necessarily read too many fashion books. Then it got competitive in junior high school. It was moreso about, "You don't got these." Everybody could be fresh, but you don't got these.

  Pusha T

  Fashion, Book, Rap

  Source: www.nicekicks.com

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• Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation, I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.

  Aisha Hinds

  School, College, Acting

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" and that hit me hard. I don't know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn't seem like an egghead. They told me to talk about sports.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Sports, Book, School

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

  Bill Walton

  Summer, Grateful, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• My parents were kids when I was born. My mother was 16. My father was 17, and they got married in high school. And they split a few years later. When they split was when all that was happening also, and he - they were just coming into themselves. But they remained friends.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mother, Father, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Howard Zinn ran what is called the Zinn Education Project. It is a radical, radical bunch of insane lunatic leftists. And there is a project at the Zinn Educational Project: A People's History of Muslims in the United States - What School Textbooks and the Media Miss. And this program is teaching your high school student, juror junior high or middle school student.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Educational, Teaching, School

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• This comes from Mike Gonzalez at the Daily Signal: [ Howard] Zinn's history "set the stage for the grievance mongering that passes for history classes today, and is still widely used. It has sold over 2 million copies since it was first published in 1980 and continues to sell over 100,000 copies a year because it is required reading at many of our high schools and colleges. That's a lot of young minds."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Reading, School, College

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.

  Cedric Yarbrough

  Basketball, Sports, Football

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

  Laila Lalami

  Reading, School

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Honesty, Real, School

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few others, helped kind of instill in me, thinking thoughts about how life is meaningful in terms of how we all kind of live in a network of people and how you interact with those people is part of what makes life essentially meaningful and then kind of concepts to think about, how do you add value to other people's lives? How do they add value to yours? And how do you kind of form a community together in the network?

  Reid Hoffman

  Meaningful, Teacher, School

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at juggling multiple social realities: I could get by no problem in many social arenas (including that of high school), but also felt alienated and totally uninspired by everything that happened there.

  Melissa Febos

  School, Reality, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Team, School, Talking

  Source: goseetalk.com

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