High School Quotes - Page 12

• You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Crazy, School, Years

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• I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

  Amy Adams

  Jobs, School, College

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• I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn’t go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see Tommy when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.

  Amy Adams

  School, Dinner, Saws

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.

  Amy Adams

  School, Hair, Self

  "Amy Adams Interview LEAP YEAR". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. January 3, 2010.

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• I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

  Christina Aguilera

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Girl, School, Two

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• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, School, Mean

  "Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat". Interview with Pat Mitchell, en.tiny.ted.com.

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• In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

  Dave Barry

  School, Literature, Students

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

  Jacques Barzun

  Baseball, Team, Heart

  God's Country and Mine ch. 8 (1954)

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• I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spring, Fall, School

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• A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.

  Mayim Bialik

  School, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Children, School

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• Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

  Erma Bombeck

  Graduation, Pregnancy, School

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• When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

  Ray Bradbury

  School, Self Education, No Money

  "A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library" by Jennifer Steinhauer, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

  Jeff Bridges

  Ocean, School, Mean

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• In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

  Eli Broad

  Teacher, School, Want

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• That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

  Garth Brooks

  Friday, Football, School

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• I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

  Bear Bryant

  School, Player, Alabama

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• It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

  Steve Buscemi

  Senior, School, Years

  "New Again: Steve Buscemi". Interview with Brooke Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2017.

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• I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

  Jenna Bush

  Sports, School, Thinking

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• I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.

  Sophia Bush

  School, Kids, Doctors

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• I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

  Sophia Bush

  Notebook, School, Kids

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• I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

  Matt Damon

  Drama, School, Play

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.

  Claire Danes

  School, Agents, Young

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• I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

  Jonathan Davis

  Beautiful, Girl, Stars

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