High School Quotes - Page 7

• In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Book, School, Eight

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.

  Werner Herzog

  School, Mean, Night

  Source: collider.com

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• I did it once in high school - I was Sandy in Grease - and I decided then that I would never do it again. I've felt that way for years, and that's no bullshit.

  Laura Vandervoort

  School, Years, Bullshit

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

  Ab-Soul

  Senior, School, Artist

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

  Steven Sebring

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had a fantastic teacher in high school. I had one of those guys you dream of having, who molds your life and inspires you to go in a particular direction, and he was quite brilliant. His name was Cecil Pickett, and a lot of the kids from my high-school drama class are in professional show business and have done quite well.

  Brent Spiner

  Dream, Teacher, Drama

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• Both of the Quaid brothers, Randy and Dennis, were in my class, and Tommy Schlamme, who produced and directed The West Wing with Aaron Sorkin, among many others. Marianne Williamson, who did A Course In Miracles, she was in my high-school drama class, too. So it was kind of an amazing class.

  Brent Spiner

  Brother, Drama, School

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• With Dazed and Confused I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. So you do create families and homes. You're projecting and it's your job. The amount of time and headspace and thought it takes on your psyche is huge. It's exhausting, yeah. And it's exhausting but it's also great.

  Parker Posey

  Jobs, Confused, Home

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service.

  Gene Wilder

  School, House, Funeral

  Source: keranews.org

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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

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• When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.

  Victoria Scott

  Girlfriend, School, College

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• I want the younger kids, the basketball players in high school and college to hear from me and let them know that when you come to the league, this is what happens and this is how I feel as an NBA player. And it's not all peachy keen.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, School, Kids

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

  Casey Affleck

  Sports, Baseball, Team

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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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• 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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• Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

  Dick Gregory

  Powerful, School, Men

  "Talking to Dick Gregory: Comedy, Selma and Cosby". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 10, 2015.

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• I would only date a 15 year old high school girl.

  Seth Rogen

  Girl, School, Years

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• The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

  George Carlin

  Running, Home, 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 suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!

  John Darnielle

  Writing, School, Hands

  "Lyrical Genius John Darnielle Wrote a Scary New Novel". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2017.

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• My middle school experience was pretty hellish. There was a lot of negativity, a lot of bullying and a lot of insecurity. It was the reason I ended up going to my arts high school because I was pretty bullied.

  Zoey Deutch

  Bullying, Art, School

  "Zoey Deutch and Ry Russo-Young discuss Before I Fall". Interview With Marriska Fernandes, www.tribute.ca. March 2, 2017.

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• To go and accomplish a dream at 15, it doesn't feel like you have all that much to lose because you're in high school. You're being home schooled. You get to kind of go for it in a different way. Your parents are still in charge.

  Emma Stone

  Dream, Home, School

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war. It doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone should do something. I'm looking around and, like, I am someone, and I might not be able to do everything, but I can do something.

  Eugene Puryear

  War, School, Ideas

  Source: www.slate.com

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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

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• Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Team, School, Talking

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