High School Quotes - Page 14

• I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

  Will Ferrell

  Couple, School, College

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• I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

  Tim Ferriss

  Sports, Wrestling, Athlete

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• I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

  Nathan Fillion

  Teacher, School, Acting

  "IGN Interviews Nathan Fillion". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 29, 2006.

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• I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.

  Nathan Fillion

  Uncles, School, Guy

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• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  Nathan Fillion

  Teacher, School, Class

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• I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

  Bobby Flay

  School, School Work, Interest

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• Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Growing Up, Home

  "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Have Not Reduced Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2009.

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• By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

  Michael J. Fox

  School, Careers, Acting

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• As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

  Michael J. Fox

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Airplane, School, Careers

  "Have Your Loved Ones Spayed and Neutered". Album by Jeff Foxworthy, 2004.

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• I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

  James Franco

  School, Effort, Acting

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

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• My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

  James Franco

  Teacher, School, Years

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• My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

  Al Franken

  Mom, Dad, Real

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• My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

  Al Franken

  Dad, School, Two

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

  Al Franken

  Dad, School, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

  Michael Franti

  Basketball, School, College

  "POP MUSIC : A 'News Junkie' and His Rap : 10 QUESTIONS : MICHAEL FRANTI : Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. August 23, 1992.

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• I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

  Thomas Friedman

  Daughter, Mother, School

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• I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.

  James Gandolfini

  School, Intelligent, Thinking

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

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• College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

  George Gobel

  Inspirational, Teenager, School

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• To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

  Jennifer Granholm

  School, Opportunity, Reality

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• When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.

  Brian Greene

  School, Math, Firsts

  "Sunday Q&A: Physicist seeks truth about cosmos". Interview With Eric Berger, www.chron.com. September 27, 2009.

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• When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

  Christine Gregoire

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling "Bart," and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

  Matt Groening

  Dog, Father, School

  "Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield". Interview with Claudia De La Roca, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 2012.

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• I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

  Dave Grohl

  Smart, School, Weekend

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• I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Growing Up, School, Parent

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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