Gary Clark Jr. Quotes
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
Oscar Robertson -
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
Queen Latifah -
My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
Yami Gautam -
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 -
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
Paloma Faith
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
Paige VanZant -
I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
Patrick Wilson -
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
Bear Grylls -
I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
Nate Torrence -
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln -
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
Mae Whitman
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I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
Mahershala Ali -
Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.
Pamela Meyer -
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
Natalie Babbitt -
Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
Randy Schekman -
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 -
My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.
Wayne Wonder
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The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.
Matthew Desmond -
The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.
Jean-Philip Grobler -
I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
Nathan Fillion -
I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.
Kate Bush -
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax -
I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.
Gary Clark Jr.