High School Quotes - Page 17

• I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

  Carl Lewis

  School, Foundation, Youth

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• I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it's a part of life. So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country today are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Growing Up, School

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• To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Media, Curriculum

  "Are Conservatives Hopelessly Outnumbered?". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.

  Jeremy Lin

  Christian, School, Sunday

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

  Ryan Lochte

  Basketball, Sports, Growing Up

  "Ryan Lochte loves his mom, really wants to meet Lil Wayne (Fourth-Place Medal interview)". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Party, School, Parent

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• Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

  Courtney Love

  Cheerleading, School, Cheerleader

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

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• Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

  George Lucas

  Kids, School, Past

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.

  Lorna Luft

  School, Careers, Juniors

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir".

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• I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

  Macklemore

  Sports, Baseball, School

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

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• My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

  Peyton Manning

  Mean, School, Isms

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• Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, School, Years

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.

  Wynton Marsalis

  School, Kids, Play

  "Branford Marsalis On Sensitive Musicians And The First Family Of Jazz". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 11, 2012.

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• I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

  Demetri Martin

  School, Law, President

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

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• I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, School, Profound

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

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• I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

  George R. R. Martin

  School, Careers, Hollywood

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

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• I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

  Steve Martin

  School, People, Laughing

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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• I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

  Steve Martin

  School, Laughing, Bedroom

  "Steve Martin Memoir Recalls A Past Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2009.

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• I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

  Dave Matthews

  School, College

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• A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Teacher, School, College

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 20, 2006.

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• Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, School, Media

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

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• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  Danica McKellar

  Teacher, Home, School

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• When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

  Danica McKellar

  Fun, School, Math

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

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• I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

  Katharine McPhee

  School, Swimmer, Middle

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• Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

  John Mellencamp

  Teacher, School, Fighting

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