Junior High Quotes - Page 2

• I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

  Christopher Darden

  Moving, School, Thinking

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• I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

  Tommy Lee

  School, Band, Juniors

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• I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

  Richard Foreman

  Senior, School, Aggravation

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• I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Yearbook, Hard Times, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

  Chad Smith

  School, Class, Band

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• I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Children, School, Drunk

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• The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

  Lynda Barry

  Couple, School, Kids

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• Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'

  Martin Wong

  School, Asian, Juniors

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• I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!

  Regina King

  Running, School, Years

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

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• There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Circles, Juniors, Hell

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.1718, Penguin

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• If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

  Eminem

  Song, Teacher, Sex

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

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• I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me.

  Claire Danes

  Juniors, Kind, Stores

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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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• I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

  Rashida Jones

  Nicknames, Juniors, Potatoes

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• When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Cheerleading, School

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• I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

  Alex Flinn

  People, Making Friends, Shy

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• I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

  Steven Wright

  Humorous, School, College

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• We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Dream, Memories, School

  Banana Yoshimoto (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.117, Grove Press

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• You wouldn't match Melanie and me up, and if we hadn't gotten stuck together as lab partners in junior high science, I doubt if we'd have matched us up either. I'm not sure why we even stuck, except that we each probably find the other to be entertaining...Besides I feel like it was a personal mission of mine to broaden Melanie's world, though I think she felt the same for me.

  Deb Caletti

  Thinking, Doubt, Together

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• You're so kind, Kazuhiko. That's what I like about you." I like you, too. I love you so much." If he weren't so inarticulate, Kazuhiko could have said so much more. How much her expression, her gentle manner, her pure untainted soul meant to him. How important, in short, her existence was to him. But he wasn't able to put into words. He was only a third-year student in junior high, and worst yet, composition was one of his worst subjects.

  Koushun Takami

  I Like You, Love You, Expression

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• I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Mother, Crazy, Passion

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• Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

  Bob Seger

  Juniors, Way, Talent

  "Bob Seger Changes His Tune About Detroit". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007.

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• My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

  Gus Van Sant

  Teacher, Art, Gay

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Sarcastic, Humorous, Government

  Jonathan Kellerman (2003). “The Web: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.105, Ballantine Books

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• I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

  Diablo Cody

  Crush, Mother, Years

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