Grades Quotes - Page 16

• These are for people above my pay grade to answer, but if it's popular - and I think it's going to be - then sure, you'll see a lot. There is an unending number of battles we could cover and send up in ways that the fans and we would love them.

  Phil Morris

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I have a few different managers, and one of them hit me up today and was like 'I'm going to set you up with these guys doing beats and such...' I was like cool, as long as I can do what I do. Just because kids are going like this now, I'm not going to do that because I am not 18 years old. I'm not going to rap like I'm in grade three because it's popular. I'm just not going to do that. It's not because I'm being stubborn, and I definitely not that guy that is getting older and does not understand the younger generation.

  Shane Bunting

  Rap, Kids, Years

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, "What did you do for the summer?" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper.

  Ice Cube

  Summer, Teacher, Mind

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Teacher, School, Math

  "Some Educators Question If Advanced Math Should Be Required". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. March 3, 2016.

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• I've been recording myself since grade 10. Back then, it was just really crappy rock stuff.

  Ryan Hemsworth

  Rocks, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Song, Aunt, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  People, Leaving, Fifth Grade

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

  Mark Kozelek

  Artist, Thinking, Helping

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it, we was rapping. It wasn't really like business, hard work.

  Dreezy

  Senior, Drinking, Rap

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.

  Zach Condon

  Cutting, Class, Years

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Home, Ideas, Firsts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I didn't do great in school. I didn't have many options. I mean, I'd like to have gone to art college, but I didn't have the grades. I didn't have any qualifications. But I had some friends who were hairdressers, so I just thought, Well, I'll have a go at it.

  Guido Palau

  Art, School, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

  Antonio Damasio

  Focus, Consciousness, Streams

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.

  T. J. Miller

  Kids, Names, Firsts

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Daughter, Growing Up, Culture

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.

  Sarah Silverman

  Jesus, Kids, People

  "Sarah Silverman, Serving Up Sinfully Divine Comedy". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. November 23, 2013.

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• I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.

  Quentin Tarantino

  School, Class, Play

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

  Brendon Burchard

  Perspective, Mentor, Bars

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• I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that grounded me in a way that I don't think I would have been grounded otherwise. So I was able to - or forced to - function practically. But I think, by nature, I was someone who lived in my head, in my imagination.

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, Imagination, Dolls

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest furiously French kissing when I was in seventh grade. I walked in, saw it, and went, "No way," backed out, composed myself, and went back in, and it was still going on. And the experience of seeing that was actually very deep.

  George Saunders

  Kissing, Boys, Way

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to do it. And I gave a slightly contentious speech. I was a little critical of the administration. But for a long time it said on Wikipedia that I took my balls out and exposed myself to the crowd.

  Nick Kroll

  School, Long, Speech

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Military, Team

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

  Yukmouth

  Artist, Years, Careers

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• I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

  Rhea Seehorn

  Writing, School, College

  "Rhea Seehorn of Better Call Saul: Learning from Loved Ones". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Tied to consciousness are all positive qualities, so that ocean within is an ocean of unbounded intelligence, unbounded creativity, unbounded happiness, unbounded love, unbounded energy, and unbounded peace. And when students start expanding consciousness in those positive qualities, their relationships improve, their grades go up, their happiness goes up, the fighting and bullying stops, and things get very, very, very good.

  David Lynch

  Bullying, Ocean, Creativity

  "An Ocean of Solutions: The David Lynch Interview". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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