Middle School Quotes - Page 5

• I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

  Kara Lindsay

  Sports, Drama, School

  "Diva Talk: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.

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• My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

  Zachary Levi

  School, Awful, Tomorrow

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

  Miranda Leek

  School, College, Piano

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• Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.

  Misty Copeland

  Teacher, School, Ballet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays.

  Kordell Stewart

  Fun, Creativity, School

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• I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, School, Night

  "Walking Away From the Money at Microsoft" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

  Bill Vaughan

  School, Kids, Parent

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• I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  School, Middle, Music Business

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  Uzo Aduba

  Senior, School, Years

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• I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.

  Evangeline Lilly

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.

  Pete Docter

  School, Cartoon, Middle

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

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• I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.

  Gillian Jacobs

  School, Done, Middle

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• If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

  Lucas Till

  School, Thinking, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

  Cecily Strong

  School, Yearbook, Middle

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• I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

  Brendon Urie

  School, Braces, Trumpets

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• Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

  Daphne Koller

  Teaching, School, College

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• My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.

  Philip Pullman

  Teacher, Real, Believe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then.

  Miles Teller

  School, Piano, Band

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've always wanted to be a voice actor. Well I think at first I wanted to be a singer. Then in middle school I auditioned for a musical and I only really cared because I wanted to sing in it. I had to act as well as part of the audition and that was the first time I ever really acted, and I was like 'Oh hey, this is fun, I like doing this.'

  Ashly Burch

  Fun, School, Thinking

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• The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because I am a person who went to 15 different elementary and middle schools. I moved all the time, often having to run out in the middle of the night because my mom couldn't pay the bills. There were schools where I'd be the poor loser kid. There were schools where I'd suddenly be the smart kid or the cool kid, although that was very seldom.

  Robert Greene

  Mom, Running, Smart

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

  Cleve Jones

  School, Kids, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.

  Elizabeth Crook

  School, Paper, Middle

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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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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• 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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• I had a hard time in middle school. I was never really quite me until I was 16 or 17, and things like bullying didn't matter anymore.

  Jason Wu

  Bullying, School, Hard Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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