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• I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

  Tamsin Egerton

  School, Students, Grades

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• It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

  Yip Man

  Teacher, Students, Difficult

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• I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

  Cristin Milioti

  Students, Very Good

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• I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

  Sara Canning

  School, Ambitious, Students

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• When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good student and I had a lot of friends.

  Thomas McDonell

  School, Fighting, Lots Of Friends

  "Exclusive Interview: Prom's Thomas McDonell". Interview with Carly Nelson, www.seventeen.com. April 28, 2011.

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• There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

  Phil Heath

  Listening, Way, Students

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• For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way.

  Misty Copeland

  Art, Book, Reading

  Source: collider.com

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• In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

  Ray Romano

  School, Laughing, Students

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• I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

  Demetri Martin

  Kids, Students

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• When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.

  Robert Redford

  Kids, Artist, Years

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Athletic, Students

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• Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Artist, Vices, Students

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• I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.

  Tyler Hilton

  Mom, Teacher, Sides

  Write It Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ambition, Science, College

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Thinking, Sheep, Black

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• I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

  Christopher Nolan

  College, Thinking, Literature

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

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• One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams, it's going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read - you ought to listen to her.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Teacher, Reading

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Nalle Elementary School, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 9, 2001.

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• I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

  Shimon Peres

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

  Alan Shepard

  Math, Science, Thinking

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• I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Soccer, Girl, President

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• I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Stupid, School, Dumb

  Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• A good student is one who will teach you something.

  Irving Kaplansky

  Education, Math, Students

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• I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

  Vanessa Lachey

  School, Thinking, Balance

  "Vanessa Minnillo: 'When I Was 17'". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I was not a good student. I did not spend much
  time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

  Stephen Hawking

  College, Students, Busy

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• Good students are good at all things.

  Marissa Mayer

  Students, All Things

  "Putting a Bolder Face on Google" by Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2009.

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