High Quotes

• Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty - even in old age - an embodiment of rock and roll history.

  

  David Means
  • School
  • History
  • Age

• I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I'm used to.

  

  SZA
  • School
  • High

• I had really bad grades in high school and didn't want to go to college, and my dad said, 'Why don't you move to L.A. or New York and pursue music? You've always been good at it.' It was the first thing that made sense to me and... It was the right move.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • School
  • Model
  • Door

• Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Walking

• I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • High

• When I got into high school, clarinet was not really in fashion. Everybody had electric bands.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • School
  • High
  • Fashion

• I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Time
  • High
  • Baseball

• There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan
  • School
  • High

• I miss high school football.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • School
  • High
  • Football

• If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Black
  • Years

• I believe that the FCC and Tribal Nations share the same goal-ensuring high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it, while respecting and preserving sites with historic, religious, and cultural significance to Tribes.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Believe
  • High
  • Religious

• I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • High
  • Pretty

• Probable nor'east to sou'west winds, varying to the soutard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes with thunder and lightning.

  

  Mark Twain
  • High
  • Rain
  • Snow

• There's been Hollywood interest in a lot of the stuff that I've done, but Descender's felt different right from the start for whatever reason. I don't know if that's because a lot of my other stuff's a little more idiosyncratic, and 'Descender' has a bit more of a high concept to it.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Different
  • Done
  • High

• I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

  

  Loretta Napoleoni
  • School
  • Political
  • Small

• They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • High
  • Air
  • Sweet

• In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • School
  • America
  • Today

• Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Value

• Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

  

  Constance Marie
  • School
  • Words
  • Drama

• That's the thing: You'll lose your legs, your athleticism, but if you can shoot - definitely from 3 - you can play into your high thirties.

  

  Dell Curry
  • High

• In London, there is no need for 25 high-end gastronomic restaurants. That would be too much.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • High

• How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • High
  • Responsibility

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