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		They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well – you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bill Hicks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				A. Scott Berg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Levine 
			 
			
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		There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Victoria Azarenka 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Queen Latifah 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Flavor Flav 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Larry Page 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Damien Chazelle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ike Barinholtz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laura Marano 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zhang Zhidong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barry White