Bill Gates 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.
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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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.
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I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.
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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.
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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'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.
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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.
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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.
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I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit!
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I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.
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Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.
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Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.
