High Quotes

• As your girlfriend, you've just pissed me off. As your High Priestess, you've just insulted me. And as someone with a working brain, you've made me wonder if you've lost every bit of your sense. (Zoey Redbird)

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Lost
  • Brain
  • Wonder

• Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths.

  

  LZ Granderson
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• By the time I graduated from high school in Vancouver, I already had a whole support network set up for me in Los Angeles, so I just moved down.

  

  Jason Priestley
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I don't think of the marketplace as teen-oriented or teen-dominated. I think of it as dominated by high-concept, in marketing especially.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Thinking
  • Marketing
  • Teen

• Don't peak in high school.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • School
  • High

• I went to high school directly across the street from Carnegie Mellon, actually, and I knew people that were a couple of years older than me that went there. I was able to see shows in the drama department, and hang out there little bit, and it just felt like a natural progression. It was at the top of my list.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • People
  • School
  • Couple

• Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

  

  Andrea Corr
  • High
  • Tolerance

• It's just the game itself that drives me. I just want to be able to compete at a high level.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • High
  • Game

• I struggled with depression when I was in high school, and I remember thinking that if I got a record deal and got a hit song, that it would solve all those problems for me.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Remember

• It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • Environment
  • Priority

• I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

  

  Kelly Olynyk
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• When you grow up, you think everything you own is going to be designer. Not true. Most of the stuff I own is high-street. I love mixing it up; it's so beautifully made nowadays, and the quality is of such a high standard, and let's be honest: everybody loves a bargain.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • True
  • Quality

• I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I love punk music. I'm also a fan of mixing vintage with some high fashion, which links back to my musical taste because I tend to mix old music with newer songs.

  

  Chelsea Leyland
  • Time
  • Music
  • Fashion

• My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

  

  Jake Johnson
  • School
  • City
  • Brother

• African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Women
  • American
  • High

• I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever they need to do to prepare, more often than not they're not in a very professional environment where you've got a high performance director and a coach that are really monitoring your daily activities.

  

  Alberto Salazar
  • Running
  • Environment
  • Professional

• A policy of knowing your replacement is one of the best ways to drive a growth culture. It anticipates and eliminates the most harmful politics in leadership for an expanding company and instantly sets the right tone for a high-talent, growth-mindset executive team.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Culture
  • Team
  • Growth

• When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.

  

  David Henrie
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Feeling

• High reputation beats high similarity.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • High

• Just what makes that little old antThink he’ll move that rubber tree plant?Anyone knows an ant, can’tMove a rubber tree plant.But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopesHe’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Tree
  • Sky
  • Plant

• Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

  

  Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • God
  • High
  • Determination

• I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing classical guitar recitals, and people said, 'You know, you can't really do both things.' My intuition told me they were wrong. Somehow, what was interesting about me was that I had those two things in my life.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• I try not to read acting books any more, but they set a high bar for me very early on.

  

  Brian J. Smith
  • High

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