Rainn Wilson Quotes

I was a total dork in high school.

Rainn Wilson

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • High
  • Security
  • Numbers

• 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.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • School
  • Reading
  • Year

• 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.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Strange
  • Beer

• 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.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Travel

• When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Bad
  • High

• 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
  • Live
  • School
  • Business

• 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?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • School
  • Age
  • Small

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Up
  • High
  • Want

• I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• 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.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Country
  • School
  • Best

• The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • High
  • Political
  • Party

• 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.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • School
  • Fun
  • Parents

• I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • School
  • London
  • Rome

• Our circumstance is abject, indefensible, and terrifying. It would be hilarious if the stakes were not so high.

  

  Sam Harris
  • High
  • Hilarious

• I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school years. I lived the sacrifices, burdens, and tears. I also lived the moments of understanding, of acknowledgment, of fellowship and success. I saw my parents and grandparents coming home beaten down - and some of my friends beaten up.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Up
  • School
  • Home

• I am a serious man, a loyal man.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Serious

• It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.

  

  James Salter
  • Great
  • Men
  • Real

• I was a total dork in high school.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • High School