High School Quotes - Page 16

• I was obsessed with being popular when I was in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals and things, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

  Mindy Kaling

  School, Costumes, Obsessed

  "Mindy Kaling On Diets, High School And Other American Pastimes". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 1, 2011.

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• Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

  Mindy Kaling

  School, Kids, College

  "Interview: Mindy Kaling Talks Sex In Sweet Valley (And Other Concerns)". Interview with Sara Benincasa, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

  Bil Keane

  Teacher, School, Drawing

  "Comics: Meet the Artist" online cha, www.washingtonpost.com. July 31, 2002.

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• I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

  Anna Kendrick

  New York, Moving, School

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• I was a high school throw-out.

  Alan King

  School

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• Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

  Stephen King

  School, Kids, Faces

  "Transcript: Nightline's Interview With Stephen King". Interview With Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. November 15, 2007.

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• That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Writing, School, Flunking

  Twitter post from Jan 17, 2017

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• My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

  Karlie Kloss

  School, Careers, Feet

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• I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  School, Yearbook, Church

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• In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Positive, Basketball, Sports

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Teacher, Teaching, Ambition

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, School

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• When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Football, School

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• I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

  Mila Kunis

  School, College, Felt

  "Mila Kunis Interview EXTRACT". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 2, 2009.

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• I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

  Shia LaBeouf

  School, Kids, White

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• My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Struggle, School, Big Families

  Interview With Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.

  Adam Lambert

  School, Eyeliner, Wanted

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• When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

  Adam Lambert

  School, Pounds, Stem

  "Adam Lambert: I once weighed 250 pounds". Interview with Larry Flick on Sirius satellite radio's "Morning Jolt", www.cnn.com. December 1, 2009.

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• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Cousin, Couple

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• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, School

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Sep 17, 2011

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• When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

  Amy Lee

  School, Band, Death Metal

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• Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

  Amy Lee

  School, Looks, Cost

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• I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

  Spike Lee

  School, Islands, Kindergarten

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

  John Legend

  Kings, Silly, School

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.

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• Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.

  Jared Leto

  Team, School, Teens

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