Dropping Out Quotes

• I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Home, School, Parent

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• My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  Hippie, Games, People

  Quoted in East Village Other, 15 Apr. - 1 May 1966

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• My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Advice, Tunes

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• If God dropped acid, would he see people?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Dropping Acid

  "The Things I Wish They'd Told Me. As I Was Growing Up". Book by David Rankin, p. 97, 2010.

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• The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

  Steve Jobs

  Class, Interesting, Connecting The Dots

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

  James S. Coleman

  Girl, School, Boys

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• Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

  Timothy Leary

  Lsd, Abandon, Constructive

  Timothy Leary (1990). “Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era : an Autobiography”, Tarcher

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• I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

  Hilary Swank

  Teacher, Want, Inspired

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• If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Stanford University, Years

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

  Timothy Leary

  Mean, Games, Social

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'

  Sean Covey

  Jobs, School, Each Day

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Six, Historic, Young

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• We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychedelic, Dropping

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• I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Jobs, Drama, College

  "Intense Ornate". Amazon.co.uk interview, 1999.

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• College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Jobs, College, Feet

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• Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Letting Go, Jobs, Mistake

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• Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

  Daniel Roth

  Dropping, Banjos

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• I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

  Joe Klein

  Believe, School, Inappropriate Behavior

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• I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine affirmative action. I grew up with poor white people in West Virginia, and I know there's a culture of poverty. I know that I've seen white people perform exactly the same pathological forms of behavior as Black people do when they're systematically deprived, whether it's getting pregnant, doing drugs, dropping out of school, whatever we're talking about. I think that we should have affirmative action for poor white people too.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Thinking, Virginia

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work.

  George Harrison

  Long, Mind, Matter

  "Dark Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison". Book by Geoffrey Giuliano (p. 80), 1997.

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• We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.

  Arianna Huffington

  Kids, School, Littles

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• When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Morning, Teenager

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• I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Thinking, People, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of children of immigrants would maybe relate to.

  Mindy Kaling

  Children, College, Thinking

  "In New Memoir, Mindy Kaling Has More To Say On Life, Love And Showbiz". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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