“If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.” IfsChildrenSchoolCrazySecurityProtectPoliceOur ChildrenCall MeCall Me Crazy Author:Wayne LaPierre
“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.” SchoolActingHalfCrazyFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolTownsTexasSmall Town Author:Jesse Plemons
“I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.” KidsSchoolCrazyCollegeHigh School Author:Alexandra Patsavas
“When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.” PeopleKidsSchoolUsedStuffCrazyCatholicDragPro LifeCrazy PeopleCatholic School Author:Tim Heidecker
“So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.” PeopleCareSchoolLiteratureStuffCrazySacredInstanceDamnVersesModernismMutantsFree VerseSchool Experience Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden
“I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying."” SchoolLawGuyClassCrazyStartingAnnoyingClownLaw School Author:Demetri Martin
“I've been working since I was five years old, and everyone in my life, outside of my family, would look at us and go, "You're crazy! Take your kid out of the business and put them in school because you're never gonna succeed."” YearsLooksKidsSchoolFiveCrazySucceedMy FamilyFive YearsFive Year Olds Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidDifferentSchoolTogetherLawStuffCitiesCrazyMy FriendsMailSiteThey SaidBuddyLaw SchoolLove To Read Author:Tucker Max
“As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.” LittlesInspirationSchoolBitsSunCrazyHugeHairLittle BitTeenagerColourBowie Author:Clive Owen
“I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting.” IfsEyeSchoolCrazyColorNormalSparkle Author:Elle Fanning
“I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.'' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.” PlayAgeAbleSchoolCoursesParentCrazyEnglandMusicalDrivingChorusParents LovePrepsDrive Me Crazy Author:Charlie Cox
“Growing up, I was a typical high school kid when YouTube first came out, and I was just watching a whole lot of videos of guys in the league I'm playing with now, guys that aren't in the league, and guys that came before me, just watching the moves that they do, and going out in my backyard and trying them. I did it almost every single day. And I didn't do any crazy dribbling drills or any two-ball dribbling drills. I'm really not good at two-ball dribbling. Nah, never did that. I just went out and tried the moves that I saw.” TryingFirstsTwoWholeKidsSchoolMovingGuyGrowing UpSawsGrowingCrazyHigh SchoolBallsVideoLeagueGoing OutTypicalYoutubeBackyardsDrills Author:Kyrie Irving
“I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.” WayYearsSelfAbleSchoolStuffMusicLaughingGoneWonderfulHappenedCrazyAdultsFairsCatholicHealFormerTherapyShellsNaiveCatholic SchoolPhysical Therapy Author:Lady Gaga
“I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.” TwoRunningSchoolThreeFourCrazyCollegeHigh SchoolMadGirlfriendSteady Author:Robin Williams
“Being young, and having your mom come to school with the laced-up hats and the crazy outfits are definitely moments to remember.” MomentsSchoolRememberYoungCrazyMomHatsYour MomOutfits Author:Ciara
“When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.” WantedSchoolYoungActorsStarsRealizingCrazyBuildingMonthsProjectsExcitedArchitectureI RealizedComing OutMovie StarVogueNycEach MonthArchitecture School Author:Tom Ford
“Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.” PeopleShouldWellsSaidI CanHelpingSchoolPoorToo MuchTeacherCrazyTerribleDrugMusicianHigh SchoolCompetitionEtcJailAddictEpiphanyChorusDrug Addict Author:Billy Joel
“I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.” MomentsActionSchoolGuyBrainCrazyChildhoodCatholicRaisedCatholicismHouseholdMedievalAction MovieCatholic School Author:Grimes
“I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.” HardSchoolParentClassBoysCrazyHard WorkBottomEarnest Author:Ridley Scott
“I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.” PeopleThinkingMightSchoolActorsLevelsCrazyEmotionalIntelligentGradesEmotional IntelligencePsychicsHigh LevelBeing CrazyGood ActorsGrades In School Author:Christine Ebersole
“What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.” MadeMatterRealitySchoolCrazyGeniusHigh SchoolAgreeLuckFortuneProfessorsBusiness SuccessDiplomaHigh School Diploma Author:James Cook
“I've always been kind of picky because I've always been interested in lots of different things. I chose to take three years off and go to school, and that helped keep me sane. Hollywood can make you crazy, if all you're thinking about is your next job.” IfsThinkingYearsKindDifferentSchoolJobsThreeNextCrazyHollywoodDifferent ThingsThree YearsSanePicky Author:Jordana Brewster
“It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I went to college in Dallas, and when I'd get back from class I'd have fans emailing me from different areas of the country asking when the album was going to be out and when I was going on tour. It was crazy, because I didn't even consider myself a professional musician.” WritingDifferentCountrySchoolSongCrazyCollegeInternetMusicianHigh School Author:Graham Colton
“We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't understand that. And it doesn't stop there. Can we go into the school system and look at the imbalance of what our children are learning? We are functioning crazy, people.” PeopleMenLooksChildrenSchoolBlackCrazyLosingMen And WomenOur ChildrenMultipleImbalanceSchool SystemCrazy People Author:Regina Belle
“I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.” YearsWantedSchoolAnswersCrazyBirthAdultsFortySpokesPotty Author:Sharon Stone
“I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. They have everything, they have money, and they're just mean-spirited. It's crazy.” PeopleKindMeanCountryWholeSchoolPlayerCrazyFootballClubsScaryPeersMiamiFootball PlayerSpiritedCheerleaderCliqueMean SpiritedCountry ClubsIdolized Author:Zoe Kravitz
“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.” IfsWritingKindLittlesI CanDifferentSometimesDoneBigsSchoolReadingEnjoyCrazyTeachingAnxietySingingHigh SchoolVariousPerformingPrivacyOperaDifferent KindsExhaustingChunksPoetry ReadingOpera Singing Author:Garth Greenwell
“I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school.” PeopleImportantPlayCharacterMightAbleSchoolCrazyCollegePeriodsI Realized Author:Condola Rashad
“We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.” KindWantedSchoolWeekCrazyShootingNuttySchool ShootingCrazy Times Author:Richard Patrick
“It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.” CountrySchoolFallCrazyWeaponsSpendingNuclearBillionsNuclear WeaponsFalling Apart Author:Ben Cohen
“I was pretty young. I guess I was in high school, so I was probably 13 years old. It was crazy. I remember it very vividly. I remember - it was actually kind of horrifying, because one of my friends - we smoked out of a bong, and one of my friends - this was so stupid - he didn't want to bring - it was after school on a Friday, and he didn't - we smoked weed in this park called the Ravine that was across the street from my high school.” WantYearsKindSchoolRememberYoungCrazyStreetsStupidHigh SchoolMy FriendsParksWeedFridayAfter SchoolBongs Author:Seth Rogen
“There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more drawing classes and talk about what looks best. I want to study math and psychology and physics and all these nerdy things with computers." That was fun and great, but that didn't work out. At the end of high school, I was like, "Uhh, what's easier? Drawing is easier, I'll do that".” WantLooksEndsSchoolFunClassStudyPsychologyCrazyPeriodsEasierComputerHigh SchoolWork OutMathDrawingPhysicsNerdyHigh School Ending Author:James Pearse Connelly
“I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.” PeopleThinkingTodaySchoolCrazyShockShy Author:Matt Shultz
“Sometimes it is hard because my schedule is crazy. I am homeschooled, so my school travels with me.” SometimesHardSchoolCrazySchedules Author:Coco Jones
“There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get joy out of provoking. They don't always believe the things they say, they just like to watch people go crazy. You know, I knew people like that in elementary school - bullies of one kind or another.” PeopleKnowsBelieveKindDifferentSchoolJoyWatchesCrazyPsychologicalMakeupProvokingBullyAlways BelieveElementary School Author:Tim Wu
“I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done everything right all my life, I'm a god-fearing Christian, I'm white, I'm male, I've worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I'm supposed to do. And I'm getting shafted." And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there's nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFeelsYearsChildrenHardDoneFactsSchoolChristianSocialWhiteStudyCrazyConditionsGunMalesWagesGoing CrazySocial Conditions Author:Noam Chomsky
“On the [Betsy] DeVos case, I agree that the gun - her gun position is kind of weird, kind of crazy, but I do think she does know about public schools.” ThinkingKnowsKindDoeSchoolCasesCrazyPositionGunAgreePublic School Author:David Brooks