Grades Quotes - Page 12

• Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?

  Eminem

  Fun, Kids, Want

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• I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

  Dizzy Dean

  Father, Want, Third Grade

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• My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Home, Eight, Israel

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloe Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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• I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell.

  Jim Cummings

  Daughter, School, Next Week

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• Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

  Alfie Kohn

  Evaluation, Rating, Subjective

  Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.

  Christine Ebersole

  Crazy, School, Intelligent

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

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• We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes.

  Sterling W Sill

  Attitude, Poor, Good Grades

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• For a long time I didn't know what I wanted or what I loved to do. Friends had that blessing and I remember thinking when I would have my turn. Then, in 9th Grade I sort of fell into playing Danny Zuko randomly in that years GREASE themed portion of the dance show. The moment I hit the stage I think something in me knew. Even in rehearsals. I'd fallen in Love.

  E.J. Bonilla

  Blessing, Thinking, Years

  "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

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• Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.

  DJ Quik

  Artist, College, Disrespect

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

  Glenn Kotche

  Rocks, Sides, Academic

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.

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• I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.

  Aisha Tyler

  Dad, Teenager, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Whatever grade I get, even though I do try my best, I'll be happy with. I feel so lucky to have done all the jobs I've done to this point. So, if I continue to work it will be amazing. But I'm going to see how it goes.

  Yasmin Paige

  Jobs, Trying, Lucky

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree

  Joel McHale

  People, Dumb, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. But I wasn't doing well in any of the schools, so by ninth or tenth grade, I ended up going to a boarding school.

  Justin Theroux

  School, Play, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just that age and that was just how it was, and my parents were very... You know, that's how I was raised. Like super-progressive.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Teacher, School, Gay

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.

  Eric Zorn

  Daughter, Father, Cancer

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• For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

  Ira Glass

  Stories, Way, Realizing

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• When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today.

  Joe Dante

  War, People, Zombie

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• At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

  Alan Greenspan

  Jobs, Skills, Risk

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• This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Rap, School, Pulse

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• Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion.

  Paige

  War, Compassion, Gun

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• If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

  Alfie Kohn

  Relax, Might, Faculty

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

  Alfie Kohn

  Tasks, Students, Pleasure

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you are building a thirty-story building and you use worm-eaten wood for the frame, inferior structural supports, and other fourth-rate, low-grade materials, what kind of finished product do you think you will wind up with? No need to answer. So if you're building a human body and the material that will become your blood, bones, skin, organs-indeed, every cell of your body-is inferior and of poor quality, what kind of body do you think you will wind up with? No need to answer.

  Harvey Diamond

  Thinking, Poor Quality, Cells

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• Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

  Margaret Sanger

  Population, Inheritance, May

  Margaret Sanger, Esther Katz (2007). “The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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