Rainn Wilson Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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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.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
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The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
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When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.
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There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.
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When I was a senior in high school, I did an internship with a law firm. And it was very clear that I did not have what it took to do that kind of work.
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I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.
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The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of every human life.
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When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.
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I was a total dork in high school.
