High School Quotes - Page 35

• I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get along well with girl, but when I met them face-to-face, I acted cold toward them. I was always in the art room drawing, I wanted to attract someone's interest. I thought that if I got good at drawing I might be able to establish a connection with the world.

  Usamaru Furuya

  Girl, Art, School

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• And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'

  Bobby Heenan

  School, Phrases, Want

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• I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

  David James

  School, Done, Benefits

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Princess, School, Years

  Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. November 17, 2008.

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• We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

  Matt Stone

  School, Smoking, Immature

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

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• I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

  Josh Turner

  Inspirational, Basketball, School

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• It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Inspirational, Basketball, School

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• When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

  Carson Daly

  Girl, Baseball, Football

  "Carson Daly: 'I'm Living Proof That the Good Guys Win'". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. April 19, 2012.

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• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  Gary Larson

  School, Careers, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

  Lance Bass

  School, Nsync, Prom

  "'Drop Dead Diva' Lance Bass interview: 'I didn't get to go to prom'". Interview with Catriona Wightman, www.digitalspy.com. July 22, 2011.

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• My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth

  Thom Yorke

  School, Missing, Teeth

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• The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

  John Grisham

  Teacher, Book, School

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• When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.

  Hunter Hayes

  School, Bus, Binders

  "Did Taylor Swift Add Hunter Hayes To Red's Male Muse Club?" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

  John Paul Stevens

  School, Views, Answers

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• I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

  Burt Bacharach

  School, Piano, Littles

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• I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.

  Kevin Durant

  Tired, School, Player

  "Kevin Durant sick of second, working for first with help of advanced stats" by Ben Golliver, www.si.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

  Colin Hanks

  Dad, Father, School

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

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• I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Summer, Cousin, Dad

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• To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

  Michael Biehn

  Party, School, Jocks

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• Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and sexually abused by a dating partner.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Girl, School, Knowing

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• High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

  Michael Powers

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

  Grant Show

  School, Thinking, Two

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• In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.

  Mark Feuerstein

  School, Nerd, Jocks

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

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• The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

  Dar Williams

  Summer, Goodbye, School

  Song: The End of the Summer

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