Grades Quotes - Page 39

• Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking out outfits. One girl, for her bat mitzvah, wore a huge red ball gown!

  Elle Fanning

  Girl, Fun, Bats

  "Elle Fanning Goes To Bar Mitzvahs, Loves Picking Out Clothes" By Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2011.

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• I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

  Aaron Paul

  Thinking, Class, Play

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

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• Hillary's opponent, in his entire campaign, every two or three weeks has said for months and months and months, beginning in Nevada, that really there wasn't much difference in how America did when I was president and how America's done under President Bush. Now, if you believe that, you should probably vote for him, but you get a very bad grade in history.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Two, Differences

  "Will Hillary’s Campaign Self-Destruct (again)?" by Arnold Steinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2016.

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• For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.

  Kyla Pratt

  School, Order, Acting

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• I am a Beyonce fan. I’m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I’ll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce can’t talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.

  Wendy Williams

  Kitchen, Sound, Fans

  "Wendy Williams Disses Beyonce: ‘She Sounds Like She Has A Fifth Grade Education’". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

  Didi Conn

  Teacher, Fun, Book

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• There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That's what makes them Democrats. If they were any more frustrating they'd be your relatives. But in this country they are all that stands between you and darkest night. You know why their symbol is the letter 'D'? Because it's a grade that means good enough, but just barely. You know why the Republican symbol is 'R'? Because it's the noise a pirate makes when he robs you and feeds you to a shark.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Mean, Night

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• What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a woman came from a rib. But then something happened that made me doubt all of it: I graduated sixth grade!

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Whales, Bullshit

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

  Sami Gayle

  New York, School, Sixth Grade

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• In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

  Fannie Flagg

  Order, Missing, Excellent

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• Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma.

  Sarah Sutton

  Teacher, Drama, School

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• We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high grade, so that it will function as the base material as a nuclear weapon. And there's no doubt about the fact that the level of effort has escalated in recent months.

  Dick Cheney

  Effort, Doubt, Levels

  "Dick Cheney, Benghazi, and White House Lies" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. May 15, 2013.

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• When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

  Pink

  Mom, Smoking, Cigarette

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

  Ray Charles

  Justice, Black History, Like You

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.200, Da Capo Press

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• My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye

  Thom Yorke

  School, Eye, Lazy

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• James Hardie(R) siding is a sustainable and marvelous substitute for wood. It's available pre-colored and the finish truly looks like high-grade wood siding. I've used this product line for years, and have been delighted with the results. It's the only product I will consider substituting for wood, and in many climates it's significantly preferable because of its stability.

  Sarah Susanka

  Years, Lines, Woods

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• Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Opportunity, Thinking, Giving

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• It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Teacher, Children, Stress

  Jonathan Lethem (2004). “The Fortress of Solitude”, p.116, Vintage

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• I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

  John Cage

  Running, Book, Reading

  John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz (1993). “John Cage, writer: previously uncollected pieces”, Amadeus Press

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• I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

  Wes Anderson

  Play, Done, Excitement

  "Wes Anderson, Creating A Singular 'Kingdom'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, ripr.org. May 29, 2012.

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• When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

  Jeff Dunham

  Christmas, Book, Teaching

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

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• I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.

  Ellen Orleans

  Thanksgiving, Strong, Holiday

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• I knew this girl named Tropicana,
  She's always juicin'.
  Producing cash for a sexual task.
  She loves men that trick like Halloween and treat...
  You ain't paid? Then your grade is incomplete.

  Lord Jamar

  Girl, Halloween, Rap

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• I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why.
  Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school,
  ...I went to school high.

  Sheek Louch

  Rap, School, Drunk

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• My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

  George Weinberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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