Grades Quotes - Page 29

• Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade school in the 1970s, and I recall the poster. But there are times when war is not only a tragic and unavoidable necessity, but also good for children and other living things.

  Dan Savage

  Children, War, School

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• My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

  Chesley Sullenberger

  Mother, Teacher, Reading

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• American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

  Caroline Knapp

  Girl, School, Air

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• I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

  Kristin Lehman

  Class, President, Ninth Grade

  "Q&A – Kristin Lehman (Gwen Eaton)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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• I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four days in a row of eating them, and I will tell you, I have not eaten many Doritos since.

  Tobey Maguire

  Four, Doritos, Remember

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• Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind.

  Stacie Orrico

  School, Two, Missing

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• In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

  Tea Obreht

  Moving, Years, Two

  "Conversation: Tea Obreht, Author of ‘The Tiger’s Wife’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 1, 2011.

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• My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.

  Mitch Pileggi

  Dad, Successful, Unions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

  Sarah Paulson

  Mother, Concerts, Let Me Go

  "'Cupid' stars Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson take the EW Pop Culture Personality Test". Interview with Mandi Bierly, ew.com. March 31, 2009.

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• I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

  Tamora Pierce

  Nuts, Age, Stuff

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• I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

  Hayden Panettiere

  School, Feelings, Doe

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• I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

  Wendell Pierce

  Practice, Two, Littles

  "Wendell Pierce: Everyone's Favorite Fake Trombone Player". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. July 4, 2011.

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• I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, Long, Decision

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• My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore.

  Aly Raisman

  School, Work Out, Understanding

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• TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.

  Melissa Rauch

  Mom, Dream, Growing Up

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• Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

  Ving Rhames

  Football, Teacher, Art

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

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• I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.

  Sonja Sohn

  Home, School, Miserable

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

  Brittany Snow

  Sound, Lame, May

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• My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Jobs, Bmw, Tennis

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

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• Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Girl, Running, Powerful

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• To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

  Katey Sagal

  Really Great, Great Things, Things To Do

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• We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

  Jack White

  School, White, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

  Michael Weatherly

  Girl, Team, School

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• I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Mother, Brother, Children

  "Talk Asia" Interview, www.cnn.com. November 20, 2007.

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• Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else. If you are in the eighth grade you're not better than someone who is in the fourth grade.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Light

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