Bill Gates Quotes

Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

Bill Gates

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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
  • School
  • High
  • Play

• Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Done
  • Doing
  • Student

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

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Fun
  • Student
  • Bloom

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• 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
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • School
  • High
  • New

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • School
  • High
  • College

• We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • School
  • High
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • School
  • High
  • Year

• 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
  • School
  • High
  • Start

• 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'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.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Myself
  • Media
  • Student

• 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
  • School
  • High
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • History
  • Student

• I don't think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn't see a direct correlation between who I was affecting with my actions. I'm not as reckless, I'm probably not as fun or funny. I've turned to my dad's sense of humor. I think that having a family has put a lot more focus on what I do.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Action

• If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it. Our vertical expression must have a horizontal effect. So, we'll continue to worship, praise and honour God with heart, soul, mind and strength the best we know how, but the fruit of that must be a generation who are totally committed to reaching the lost and helping those who need help, locally and globally.

  

  Joel Houston Hillsong United
  • God
  • Missing
  • Worship

• I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Remember
  • Young
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Sense
  • Writer
  • Fascinating

• Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

  

  Bill Gates
  • High School
  • Student
  • Degree