High School Quotes - Page 36

• I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why.
  Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school,
  ...I went to school high.

  Sheek Louch

  Rap, School, Drunk

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• I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist,
  I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base."
  Fly Louis sneakers, Purple Tape coming out the speakers,
  Bumped into my high school teachers,
  They said I wouldn't be nothing, sitting on the bleachers.
  Now I'm sitting in the Phantom, trynna figure out the features.
  I'm a big fish now, I watch for the leeches.

  Sheek Louch

  Teacher, Rap, School

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• I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

  Loni Anderson

  School, Kids, Reality

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• When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

  James Woods

  School, Reality, Illusion

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• This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain children and ask that God ease the pain of Littleton's suffering families, ... The students of Columbine High School and children everywhere have a basic right to learn in an environment free of fear and violence. We must redouble our efforts to see that this is a reality.

  John McCain

  Prayer, Children, Pain

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• Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

  Maureen Forrester

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

  Jason Mraz

  School, Singing, My Own

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• Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

  David E. Kelley

  Teacher, School, Imagination

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• You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

  Maya Lin

  Fun, School, Worry

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• Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

  Andrew Shue

  Senior, Soccer, School

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• I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I’d go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we’d all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn’t jaded.

  Shailene Woodley

  Soccer, Growing Up, Fun

  "‘The Descendants’ Breakout Shailene Woodley on Her Future and Working With George Clooney". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

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• After I became an attorney, the mother of two girls I'd known in high school came to see me. She'd endured years of heinous abuse from her husband that nearly destroyed her. I'd never suspected a thing.

  Harry Reid

  Girl, Mother, Husband

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• My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

  Jack White

  Mother, School, Grandparent

  “Jack White: 'Is it fun to make music? I don't really know' - an in-depth Q&A from the vaults” by Barney Hoskyns, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

  Jeffery Deaver

  School, Editors, Magazines

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• When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, School, Simple

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

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• My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

  Frank Iero

  School, Class, Juniors

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• Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can create a sensation, and accordingly their report becomes not only a careless one, but hopelessly distorted.

  Hugo Munsterberg

  School, Gone, Instinct

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• I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

  Stewart Udall

  Horse, School, Hands

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• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  Carl Lewis

  School, Thinking, Needs

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• Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

  David Henry Hwang

  School, Guarantees, Wells

  David Henry Hwang (1993). “M. Butterfly: With an Afterword by the Playwright”, p.32, Penguin

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• In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

  Portia de Rossi

  Girl, Sex, School

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

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• In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having looked after someone who was old, ill, or lonely; or without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Baby, Motivation, School

  "The Ecology of Human Development".

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• Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

  Barney Frank

  School, Political, Congress

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