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I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970.
- A'Lelia Bundles
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Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
- Margaret Spellings
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At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.
- Philip Zimbardo
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There's just so much girl-on-girl hate. It happens to start in high school, and then it builds and gets bigger and bigger, and it seems like for some reason there's this mentality that if another girl does well, she's taking my spot.
- Madison Keys
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My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that's the one I wore before I got to high school and had to pick a different one.
- Jason Aldean
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In high school and college, I was an athlete.
- David Duchovny
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I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.
- Billy Crystal
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I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.
- Meredith Eaton
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Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father purchased for me when I was in high school. Both left a lasting impression on me, because they chronicle the lives of some of the most creative scientists of the 21st century.
- Baiju Bhatt
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When I was in college and high school so I had it in my head that I can coach high school wrestling. Honestly, wrestling was my end all and be all, I had all my chips in that hat, that was it for me.
- Cedric Alexander
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There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.
- Patrick J. Adams
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I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of Congress. You had to learn how to do that stuff.
- Gordon Lightfoot
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When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.
- Seann William Scott
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I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?
- Stacey Dash
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I started playing quarterback my junior year of high school.
- Jimmy Garoppolo
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My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
- John Collison
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
- Karlie Kloss
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When I graduated high school, I was 150 pounds. When I first started wrestling, with the independents in California, every company is going to have guys, or in better shape. While I had gotten bigger, I was still only about 205, so I wasn't huge.
- Brian Cage
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When I graduated from high school, I became a DJ in a club, a local hang-out called Eve After Dark.
- DJ Yella
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As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
- Jerome Isaac Friedman
#High School
I've always been a fan of martial arts, even before I did jiu-jitsu tournaments. I did point karate tournaments and wrestled in high school. To me, it was just an evolution and mixed martial arts was the next step. I just wanted to compete and train in it. I had no illusions of it being a paying gig.
- Frank Mir
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That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.
- Steve Mariucci
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I was pretty dorky in high school. I was pretty much of a recluse.
- Ed McCaffrey
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To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.
- Rob Gronkowski
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I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff.
- Eric Close
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I was way behind physically in high school. They had weight bars that were about forty-five pounds. I couldn't handle them. Couldn't even put the weights on. It was embarrassing. So I always figured out ways to avoid lifting when I was young.
- Scottie Pippen
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
- Tavis Smiley
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Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.
- David Christian
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I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.
- Spencer Grammer
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I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
- Art Donovan
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I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.
- Anohni
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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
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You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.
- John Katzman
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I went through child abuse, and I also went through abuse with dating a couple of boyfriends in high school. I also have gone through a divorce.
- Cheryl Burke
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I was born in 1999, just a few months after 13 people were left dead after a shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.
- Emma Gonzalez
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I feel like in my senior year of high school, I had my clothes a lot more figured out. I had my hair figured out.
- Emma Gonzalez
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I definitely spent a lot of high school isolating myself because I didn't feel like I fit in. I learned how to be funny.
- King Princess
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At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
- Luke Ford
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
- Barry Sonnenfeld
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When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.
- Ellen McLaughlin
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I played with Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph. They were my high school teammates.
- Avery Bradley
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As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
- Bo Jackson
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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.
- Bebe Rexha
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I started painting when I was in high school.
- James Best
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I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
- Cobi Jones
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Yes, from the time I was in junior high school I decided I wanted to be a chemist. I didn't quite know what a chemist was, but I kept it up and got my Ph.D. in physical chemistry.
- Gordon Moore
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I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
- Jack Canfield
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I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.
- Steven Chu
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We moved to Brooklyn when I was about 9 or 10, and from Brooklyn we moved to Rochester in New York. I went to high school in Rochester in New York.
- Winston Duke
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Steve Laurence is the only person that was on the first 'Tonight Show,' right to the end. He was a little high school boy, 14 years old.
- Jayne Meadows
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
- Uzo Aduba
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I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.
- Heather Matarazzo
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'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!
- Manika
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I feel like I've been out of high school forever. So I just read to keep my mind going.
- Swae Lee
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I tipped one in college and dunked in high school. I can still touch the rim. I've always been a guy who has been able to get off my feet. I've still got a little hop to my game.
- Muggsy Bogues
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I was wrestling all the way to high school, but it kind of came in the same season as basketball, so I had to pick and choose one, and I decided to go all the way with basketball.
- Muggsy Bogues
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I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
- Donald Glover
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I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.
- David Bolinsky
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I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
- Stephen Stills
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Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
- Gary Locke
#High School
I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.
- Jeffrey Chiesa
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During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.
- Scott Stossel
#High School
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
- Mark Takano
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In high school, I was head of the lab. I dumped a whole five-gallon bucket of D-76 on my head once. It ruined all my clothes.
- Adam Granduciel
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After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.
- Evan Williams
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
- Adam Oates
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I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.
- Kate Bosworth
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In high school, it was NEH-gee. In college, it was NAG-ee. Now we don't know what it is.
- Matt Nagy
#High School
When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.
- John Grant
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I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.
- Stephen Sprouse
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I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.
- Stephen Sprouse
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I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there.
- Olesya Rulin
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My senior year in high school I knew was going to be drafted into the NBA.
- Derrick Favors
#High School
I wasn't as good as some of these guys coming into high school, going into college. I really had to grind to get my position, even still now. I'm still doing the same thing.
- Marcus Morris
#High School
In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.
- Lucas Grabeel
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It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.
- Bruce Sutter
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I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.
- Charles Best
#High School
I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.
- John Glover
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I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.
- Uzo Aduba
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I'm getting more into fashion. I'm surprised that I'm getting into it because I was always wearing goofy stuff in high school.
- Morgan Saylor
#High School
I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.
- Raven-Symone
#High School
I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.
- Graham Moore
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It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.
- Alice McDermott
#High School
I wore a Santa hat for a whole year in high school.
- Jeremy Sisto
#High School
When I was in high school, people would ask me what I wanted to do, and I would always say I wanted to 'lead marches and give speeches.'
- Michael Tubbs
#High School
I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.
- Harry Shum, Jr.
#High School
I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.
- Joey Jordison
#High School
I was the class clown, but I was also student body president in high school.
- John Ritter
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High school is something that we have to deal with. It's not a glorified fluffy, fun, prince-and-princess kind of time.
- Barrett Wilbert Weed
#High School
When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in high school who felt like they knew what they wanted to do with their lives, and that was intimidating to me because I didn't.
- James Marsden
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I didn't know what my passion was until I discovered the dramatic arts in junior high and high school and I realized, 'Oh, I like this. This is something I feel like I'm good at.' But, the idea of moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor was really unrealistic.
- James Marsden
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I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me. But I was still interested in what he had to say.
- Seth Shostak
#High School
Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.
- Elton Gallegly
#High School
The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.
- Aziz Ansari
#High School
I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.
- Matthew Quick
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It dates back to my dad and my uncles. They all got permits to go to Beverly Hills High School back in the '70s and early '80s. After they finished college, they came back and became football coaches there. So I was there with a permit.
- Spencer Paysinger
#High School
A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.
- Lynn Schusterman
#High School
Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'
- Drew Gilpin Faust
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I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.
- Stephen J. Cannell
#High School
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
- Samantha Shannon
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