High School Quotes - Page 38

• To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

  Jimmy Wales

  Smart, School, Kids

  "Q&A" with Jimmy Wales, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms

  Stephen Stills

  Latin, School, Years

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• I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

  Jim Otto

  Senior, School, Years

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• Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

  Peter Thiel

  Smart, School, Careers

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.31, Crown Business

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• Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

  Peter Thiel

  School, People, Bombs

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.134, Crown Business

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• But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.

  Peter Thiel

  Powerful, School, Thinking

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. May 20, 2012.

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• The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.

  Peter Lynch

  School, America, Important

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2012). “Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

  Jesse McCartney

  Wise, School, Class

  "Jesse McCartney Talks Confidence, Future Plans, and 'Beware The Gonzo'!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.

  Jesse McCartney

  Baseball, Team, School

  "Jesse McCartney Talks Confidence, Future Plans, and Beware The Gonzo!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Im just trying to be positive. I like the guys (Im) around. Even though were not at the record Id like to be, even after a loss, guys are mad, but then we have fun and you move on. They look up to me. Ive been around eight years. A lot of these guys were in junior high or high school when I came into the NBA. I see how much of an influence I am off the court. I try to be careful how I approach things on and off the court, because I know these guys are watching.

  Paul Pierce

  Fun, Moving, School

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• I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

  David LaChapelle

  Art, School, Photographer

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• People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

  David LaChapelle

  Wall, Tired, School

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• I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Senior, School, Years

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• When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

  Billy Collins

  Motivation, Inspiration, School

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• I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start

  Steve Case

  School, College, Thinking

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• I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

  Damian Marley

  School, Cat, Records

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

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• I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there’s this time where anything is possible and the more things that you artistically and educationally have in your repertoire, the more you become a child of larger possibilities.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Children, School, Thinking

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• I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

  Didi

  School, College, Years

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• My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  School, Math, Years

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• As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

  Megan Gallagher

  Drama, School, Acting

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• My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

  Richard Ernst

  Father, Teaching, School

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• I didn’t like to dress up in high school. I wore pajamas all the time. Or I would have my hair in a high bun from dance, and just wear dance clothes.”

  Heather Morris

  School, Hair, Clothes

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• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Movie, School, Kids

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• Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little corner of it. Pi occupies a key place in trigonometry too. It is intimately related to e, and to imaginary numbers. Pi even shows up in the mathematics of probability

  Robert Kanigel

  School, Keys, Numbers

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• I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

  Sally Kirkland

  Art, School, California

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