High School Quotes - Page 15

• You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.

  Robert Griffin III

  Determination, Dad, School

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• What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

  Scott Hamilton

  Friendship, Girl, Sports

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• I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

  Mia Hamm

  Basketball, Soccer, School

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• My doctor said, 'If you can weigh what you weighed in high school, you'll essentially be healthy and not have Type 2 diabetes.' Well, I'm gonna have Type 2 diabetes, because there is no way I can weigh as much as I did in high school.

  Tom Hanks

  School, Doctors, Type 2 Diabetes

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• I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Clever, Writing

  "Riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna tells Miley Cyrus she wants to collaborate". www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2014.

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• I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.

  Woody Harrelson

  School, College, Twenties

  "The Gospel Truths of Woody Harrelson". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  School, Nerd, Computer

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• I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

  Levon Helm

  School, Trying, Grades

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• Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

  Jim Henson

  School, College, Years

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• I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, "Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school." I had a great high-school experience.

  Jonah Hill

  School, Men, Issues

  "Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill". Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 13, 2012.

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• Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

  Alice Hoffman

  School, People, Community

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• I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  School, College, Play

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• I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Reading, School

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• I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

  Oliver Hudson

  Valentines Day, Girlfriend, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Home, School, School Experience

  "Josh Hutcherson Talks DETENTION and Whether He Thinks Gary Ross Will Return for CATCHING FIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

  Janis Ian

  Girl, Queens, School

  Song: At Seventeen, Album: Between the Lines, 1975

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• I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, School, College

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• It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, School, College

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• There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

  T. D. Jakes

  Self Esteem, Home, School

  "Mega Church Leader Bishop T.D. Jakes". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 2, 2006.

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• I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

  Wyclef Jean

  School, Musical, Band

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• I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

  Grace Jones

  Girl, School, Black

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• So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

  James Earl Jones

  School, Years, Michigan

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

  Norah Jones

  Football, Team, School

  "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July, 2003.

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• In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

  Rashida Jones

  School, Acting, Profession

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• In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

  Rashida Jones

  School, Office, Done

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2009.

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