High School Quotes - Page 4

• I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

  Casey Affleck

  Sports, Baseball, Team

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I made the Dixie Heights High School baseball team as an 8th grader and went on to have a very successful career. I was all state both my junior and senior years leading our team 3 district championships and 1 regional championship in 2001 which hadn't happened since 1991. My number has since been retired at Dixie Heights and a banner hangs from the outfield fence with my name and number on it.

  Graham Taylor

  Senior, Baseball, Team

  "MILB Interview: Graham Taylor (Jacksonville Suns, Miami Marlins)". Intreview with Justin Godsey, hotseatsports.wordpress.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, College

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last position was about $122,000. For a guy without a high school diploma, that's pretty good.

  Edward Snowden

  School, Careers, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

  Judd Apatow

  Athlete, School, Comedian

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Reading, Writing

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". Interview with Peter Sagal, wvasfm.org. January 21, 2017.

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• Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

  Dick Gregory

  Powerful, School, Men

  "Talking to Dick Gregory: Comedy, Selma and Cosby". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 10, 2015.

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• I would only date a 15 year old high school girl.

  Seth Rogen

  Girl, School, Years

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• I actually live right near a high school and I always walk by...I live in a high school. I actually live in the boiler room of a high school at night. When I see high school guys now I'm actually like, 'Thank f - king God I'm not in high school anymore because they look like they could kick the living s - t out of me.'

  Seth Rogen

  Kings, School, Night

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• Maybe it's just L.A., but [high school girls] look like men, like they would have kids and s - t.

  Seth Rogen

  Girl, School, Kids

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• I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.

  George Carlin

  Teaching, Mean, School

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

  George Carlin

  Running, Home, School

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  School, Able, Saws

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• I never imagined getting to do what I love for a living and having so many people appreciate it. There was only one other skater in my high school and we were the lowest form of cool. Our classmates couldn't figure out why we liked such a loser sport, or why we hadn't grown out of it yet.

  Tony Hawk

  Sports, School, People

  Kidzworld Interview, www.kidzworld.com.

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• I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!

  John Darnielle

  Writing, School, Hands

  "Lyrical Genius John Darnielle Wrote a Scary New Novel". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2017.

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• My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.

  Michelle Singletary

  Home, School, Grandmother

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

  Toni Morrison

  School, Writing, College

  Interview With Chloe Brooks, theharvardadvocate.com. April 13, 2016.

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• The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something. Do you know what it's like to be a Madame in Paris, when you're too old to have any clients. No, you don't. I don't either. Write about it.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, School, College

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• To go and accomplish a dream at 15, it doesn't feel like you have all that much to lose because you're in high school. You're being home schooled. You get to kind of go for it in a different way. Your parents are still in charge.

  Emma Stone

  Dream, Home, School

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war. It doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone should do something. I'm looking around and, like, I am someone, and I might not be able to do everything, but I can do something.

  Eugene Puryear

  War, School, Ideas

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation, I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.

  Aisha Hinds

  School, College, Acting

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Team, School, Talking

  Source: goseetalk.com

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• Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Team, School, Talking

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• By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit.That was the only class I got an A in and it was the funniest report card because it read Speech - A but everything else was just D, D, D, D.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  School, Class, Everyday

  Source: goseetalk.com

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• My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of 1965, I was immediately impressed by the classic northern Italian architecture that was mixed with futuristic ultra-modern buildings. The classic architecture gave it the heft of old wisdom while the modernistic look inspired hope for the future.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Spring, School, Italian

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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