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Related When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade... BILL COSBY I really wanted to sign out of high school, but my mom said Mike told her to push for college. It ma... JACK TASCHNER When I was in high school I had two favorite subjects, lunch and recess. ALBERT EINSTEIN When I graduated from high school, my mom and dad were saying I needed to go to college, but I said ... ELIJAH KELLEY I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the ... STEVEN CHU The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff's Office in the Identificatio... JANET RENO After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if... T. B. JOSHUA I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I ... BILLIE LOURD My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after hig... DAVID A. R. WHITE I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my seni... COLIN ANGLE When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing so... DAN BYRD Without a doubt, without that inserted in her chest I would have come back from the grocery store an... CHRIS HIGGINS I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju... LA'PORSHA RENAE By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith Colle... CYNTHIA VOIGT It was difficult at times to balance my school life with my pageant life. At times all I wanted to d... AUDRA PAQUETTE When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so... BEN SCHWARTZ By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were get... ANNETTE BENING I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school w... HANNAH KEARNEY I had done theater during high school and college, but with my life and everything I had going on, I... DASCHA POLANCO When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in col... LILY RABE It was sold out yesterday, ... I actually went to the grocery store and bought frozen apple pie (bec... PAUL JENNINGS By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to v... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy U... AMIRI BARAKA When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ... OM PURI After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and... EVAN WILLIAMS By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning act... MICHAEL J. FOX My schooling was disrupted by the shortage of labor during World War I. It meant foregoing high scho... THEODORE SCHULTZ I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so muc... GARRETT CLAYTON I think if there ever was any point that I felt that I was neglecting school in any way, ... I'd rec... DEVON AOKI I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream... ANDREW WILES I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD.... BRUCE BEUTLER By the time we've made it, we've had it. MALCOLM FORBES I had the mind-set that any school that wanted me, I was going to go there. JOSHUA JOHNSON In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at ... KATHLEEN HANNA I've actually had a number of phone calls, I got stopped in the grocery store and I had an attorney ... DALE EVENSON I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with the... KEVIN GATES Eastern Kentucky was a suitcase college. It was a great school, but it wasn't close enough to home -... GAYLE MAHAFFEY I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore yea... CHAD LINDBERG When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer... CHANDRA WILSON I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angele... DYLAN BRUCE I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's ca... KAY GRANGER I've always loved horses. I had one horse when I was in high school, but I had to sell him becau... NICOLE JORDAN In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I ... MAGGIE ROWE By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor. ALEXIS DENISOF My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education... DWIGHT YOAKAM Growing up, I think the competition at a young age with the programs here, I was able to compete wit... ABDUL HODGE I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school t... DANE DEHAAN ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ... NATALIE GOLDBERG I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a... ABIGAIL WASHBURN I hadn't shopped online. I don't think I was a contemporary person any longer - I hadn't been in a g... TOM FORD Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many colleg... ALEXA VON TOBEL I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every sum... CHRISTOPHER REEVE Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I s... MICHAEL ARENSDORFF I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental sch... MARK SPITZ Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point. JAMES HARDEN I remember once seeing a guy in the grocery store who looked so much like my character the Archangel... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO It was fun and I learned a lot, but I knew I wanted to be in the classroom and teaching as well. A c... JENN NATALE I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college. TOKS OLAGUNDOYE I was just walking through the door from the grocery store. I had felt really good about the intervi... LORETTA MAYS Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well ... MARC DAVIS I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I cou... SAM JAEGER The songs on my first album were such that I started really high and by the time we reached the chor... JANJI VINCE I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll ... CARA BUONO My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that ... LAWRENCE R. KLEIN You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanish... BRANDON SANDERSON By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody. JOHN CENA I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no... DAVE MUSTAINE When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had op... BECKY LYNCH I realized that as I was getting older, I had to prioritize what I really wanted to do in the world ... MARVIN HAMLISCH By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ... PATRICK DEWITT I hoped she understood that I was hers, completely and undeniably, forever. That if I had all of thi... MOLLY MCADAMS I went into last year without any anticipation of how I was going to do. I wanted to see how the who... CODY IRWIN I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obvious... KINA GRANNIS Every time we'd go out, I was praying it would happen. Every time we'd go to the grocery store, I'd ... BRENNA MOSER First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and st... SOURCE UNKNOWN I'm from Malibu, California. Once I tell people, they're like, 'Oh, of course you're... GIGI HADID I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small gro... HARRY MARKOWITZ When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to... WILL.I.AM I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or coll... OSCAR ROBERTSON I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience... CHARLIE HUNNAM I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away t... DAPHNE OZ I never looked at it that way. I didn't play high school football, so I had a late start. I was youn... BEN DAVIDSON Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any play... DAVE ANDREWS I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my... CLAIRE BLOOM Ever since I started swimming in high school, my most major goal was to make state. That's a humongo... BEN RUSSELL I took him to Black Mountain when he was in high school, and that made a lasting impression on him. ... JOE HAMPTON After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get... SHAY MITCHELL I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have... MALIN AKERMAN If I could have any super power that I wanted, I would choose to be able to understand a womans mind JESUS BARRAZA I had to find different things to do with myself that first year. I had been playing basketball my e... EDDIE SPENCER It's a big accomplishment. I didn't realize I had reached it already. It was a very similar moment t... KEAUNA VINSON I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get ou... JOHN MAYER I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact th... MADI DIAZ I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in... CHRISSY METZ I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I ina... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that wa... GAYLE FORMAN I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, ... JIM BROWN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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ROBERT ALTMAN The movies set the pattern, and these people have copied the movies, ROBERT ALTMAN If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone... SAM ALTMAN Mergers generate substantial synergies. ROGER ALTMAN She kept looking back at me. The last time she looked back and she winked at me. ASHLEY ALTMAN Wonderful -- that's the best defensive game we've ever played as a team. They flash and flash and fl... ASHLEY ALTMAN That's the way those guys prefer to work down there. ROBERT ALTMAN And I said, 'You know, we should do your show, and you should write it. Because it's your humor, it'... ROBERT ALTMAN A Prairie Home Companion. ROBERT ALTMAN If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down. ROBERT ALTMAN When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke. ROBERT ALTMAN I'm here, I think, under kind of false pretenses, and I think I have to become straight with you. Te... ROBERT ALTMAN We're not against each other. They sell shoes and I make gloves. ROBERT ALTMAN It's a process that I don't believe in, ... And I don't think it's correct for my kind of films. ROBERT ALTMAN If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France. ROBERT ALTMAN Real GDP growth has been relatively healthy, but most Americans don't feel it. It's a transformative... ROGER ALTMAN Ed is a visionary. He has a very long-term point of view and he knows exactly what he believes in. Y... ROGER ALTMAN We feel there are about eight projects which we feel wouldn't have advanced without New Jobs for New... ROGER ALTMAN He has a real conviction as to how the telecom market and technology are going to evolve, and a real... ROGER ALTMAN I'm not sure we have a great team. But we've got six awfully good ones. DANA ALTMAN There will be no whining or complaining from us. DANA ALTMAN Brian has been ready for this opportunity for a long time. He's always done an outstanding job for m... 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SCOTT ALTMAN Watching the sunrise and sunset, and the way it illuminated the solar arrays on the service module w... SCOTT ALTMAN Welcome back to Earth after a fantastic flight. SCOTT ALTMAN Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventual... ROGER ALTMAN Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have d... SAM ALTMAN The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. eco... ROGER ALTMAN The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on trac... ROGER ALTMAN a slow but perceptible deterioration of our employer-based (health insurance) system. DREW ALTMAN The good news is the rate of increase in health care costs is down, ... The bad news is that's the o... DREW ALTMAN Tech companies tend to do tech best. SAM ALTMAN The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't r... SAM ALTMAN I was of course discussing the book of Leviticus. I don't know why your mind is so filthy these days... MARSHA ALTMAN I didn't say what kind of book. You have a foul mind Bingley." "Don't mock me on my sister's we... MARSHA ALTMAN It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters. ROBERT ALTMAN How dare we continue to show this kind of mass destruction in movies, ROBERT ALTMAN For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. SIDNEY LUMET Either I will find a way, or I will make one. PHILIP SIDNEY If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it? SIDNEY BUCHMAN We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection. SIDNEY POITIER It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. SIDNEY MADWED It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos... PHILIP SIDNEY I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I di... GEORGE SIDNEY In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play o... SIDNEY CROSBY Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. SIDNEY LANIER The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness wil... SIDNEY MADWED Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings. SIDNEY MADWED Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Be... SIDNEY JOURARD Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love. SIDNEY JOURARD I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described a... SIDNEY POITIER Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the ... SIDNEY MADWED To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies. SIDNEY SHELDON I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind. SIDNEY SHELDON Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you ... SIDNEY SHELDON Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw.... SIDNEY SHELDON Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SIDNEY MADWED If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your uni... SIDNEY MADWED Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between ... SIDNEY MADWED It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. SIDNEY MADWED You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you k... SIDNEY JOURARD If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply w... SIDNEY POITIER If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to... SIDNEY JOURARD Liars need to have good memories. ALGERNON SIDNEY We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, anal... SIDNEY JOURARD Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? SIDNEY MADWED Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or... SIDNEY MADWED One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. SIDNEY HOWARD The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they... SIDNEY MADWED The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. PHILIP SIDNEY Into the woods, my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent,
Into the woods my Master came,
... SIDNEY LANIER When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded. SIDNEY SHELDON Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partl... PHILIP SIDNEY