School Quotes
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I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'
Joe Gibbs
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When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."
Mikhail Bakunin
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I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn't do well in school but had a great time exploring Beijing from the inside out.
Chloe Zhao
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When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.
Carmen Yulin Cruz
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I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.
Demetri Martin
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My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.
Andie MacDowell
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The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.
Benjamin Clementine
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I was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and I would go to school in Texas. I lived on the border, so I was very fortunate to grow up between two worlds and both cultures and both languages and traditions.
Bianca Marroquin
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I know high school is hard for people. They try to work it out into their early adulthood to find a more secure emotional space for themselves, but ultimately I think that’s a fucking luxury right now. We need to fucking wake up and pay attention.
John McCrea
Cake
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I never felt that I was a leading-man type in high school. I was always the goofy guy who was getting attention from girls who could make them laugh by doing impersonations of, like, 'Saturday Night Live' sketches... I was more James Stewart than James Bond.
James Marsden
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I knew I wanted to work in television because some friends of mine, when I went to high school - their fathers worked for, as a matter of fact, for NBC Sports at the time.
Matt Lauer
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I was at this fancy school, and I felt out of place, so I rebelled.
Jimmy John Liautaud
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I think it was born out of that grade school fantasy that a lot of nerds like me had, which was 'I could probably get the cute red-headed girl that sits across from me, if only every other boy in the entire school dies.'
Brian K. Vaughan
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When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor.
Kim Coates
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I suggest to you tonight that if George Bush had selected the Supreme court in '54, Clarence Thomas would have never got to law school.
Al Sharpton
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I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.
Jordana Brewster
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I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.
Trisha Yearwood
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When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
Albert Brooks
