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“My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.”

Years Hard Home Parent My Family Moved Israel Eight Grades Splits Fifth Scholarship Single Parent Fifth Grade Parents Home

Author:Natasha Lyonne

“I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell.”

Years Two Shows School Next Half Talking Four Week Daughter Grades My Daughter Four Years Dolls Next Week Our Daughter Classmates Sixth Grade

Author:Jim Cummings

“Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.”

Objectives Grades Subjective Rating Evaluation

Book:The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

Source: The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

“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.”

People Thinking Might School Actors Levels Crazy Emotional Intelligent Grades Emotional Intelligence Psychics High Level Being Crazy Good Actors Grades In School

Author:Christine Ebersole

“We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes.”

Poor Attitude Grades Good Grades

Author:Sterling W Sill

“For a long time I didn't know what I wanted or what I loved to do. Friends had that blessing and I remember thinking when I would have my turn. Then, in 9th Grade I sort of fell into playing Danny Zuko randomly in that years GREASE themed portion of the dance show. The moment I hit the stage I think something in me knew. Even in rehearsals. I'd fallen in Love.”

Thinking Knows Years Long Moments Shows Wanted Remember Turns Stage Blessing Long Time Fallen Grades Portions Rehearsal Grease

Author:E.J. Bonilla

“Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.”

Way Firsts Sometimes Hard Artist College Grades Motivated Disrespect New Music New Artists

Author:DJ Quik

“I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.”

Sides Rocks Grades Academic Fourth Conjunctions Fourth Grade

Author:Glenn Kotche

“I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.”

School Guy Car Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Teenager Grades Closest Motorcycle Grades In School Closest Friends

Author:Aisha Tyler

“Whatever grade I get, even though I do try my best, I'll be happy with. I feel so lucky to have done all the jobs I've done to this point. So, if I continue to work it will be amazing. But I'm going to see how it goes.”

Ifs Feels Trying Done Jobs Lucky Grades Working It So Lucky

Author:Yasmin Paige

“I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree”

People Comedy Grew Grew Up Agree Dumb Grades Survived Dyslexic Good Grades

Author:Joel McHale

“I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. But I wasn't doing well in any of the schools, so by ninth or tenth grade, I ended up going to a boarding school.”

Wells Play School Stuff Acting Grades After School School Plays

Author:Justin Theroux

“I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just that age and that was just how it was, and my parents were very... You know, that's how I was raised. Like super-progressive.”

Knows Firsts Age School Remember Parent Teacher Gay Raised Grades Progressive Elementary School

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.”

“For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.”

Way Persons Stories Bigs Happens Realizing Thirds Things Happen Grades Something New Third Grade

Author:Ira Glass

“When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today.”

People Knows Needs Firsts War Shows Today Grades Feathers Zombie Movie Business Zombie Movie

Author:Joe Dante

“At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Jobs Force Risk Skills Complexes Rate Grades Stable Composition Percentages Oversimplification

Author:Alan Greenspan

“This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.”

Kind School Disease Rap Idiot Grades Pulse Grades In School Belching

Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.

“Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion.”

Knows Should Mind Persons War Enough Care Humanity Talking Compassion Wonder Bears News Gun Tests Rewards Passing Passings Grades Tonight Target Discussing Passing A Test

Author:Paige

“If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.”

Ifs Might Standards Grades Relax Faculty Emphasis Orientation

Book:Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

“Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.”

Pleasure Students Tasks Grades Completing

Book:Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

“Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.”

May Policy Population Grades Parenthood Traits Inheritance Segregation Offspring Tainted Planned Parenthood Eye Opening Progeny Sterilization

Book:The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939

Source: The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939

“Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.”

Mean Thirds Significant Grades Third Grade Significant Things

Author:Max De Pree

“If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.”

Ifs School College Degrees High School Grades Inflation Credibility Bachelors Diploma High School Diploma

Book:American Contempt for Liberty

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.”

“Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end”

Ends Explanation Officials Grades Establishment Appointments Freemasonry Passwords

Author:Isaac Mayer Wise

“I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor.”

Two Shows Wanted Actors Talent Gun Opposites Rose Grades Theatrical Sixth Grade Talent Show Guns N Roses

Author:Ariel Pink

“The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.”

Thinking Firsts Book School Teacher Grades Copies Grades In School

Book:Andy Warhol: the late work

Source: Andy Warhol: the late work

“When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."”

Want Firsts Children Made Would Be Together Hours Destiny Saws Influence Rocks Style Scene Band Findings Okay Radio Grades Fifth Houston Rock Bands Freestyle Fifth Grade

Author:Lizzo

“When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.”

Made Important Helping Wanted School Felt Mistake Boys Gone Teacher College Decided Grades Same Mistakes School Teachers Making The Same Mistakes

Author:Bill Cosby

“I feel very fortunate that I'm doing what I wanted to do from the third grade on. I became very interested in the sports broadcasting aspect even at that early age. I'd turn down the sound on the TV and do games in my house - and probably get everybody looking for me to go into a room and lock the door so they didn't have to hear it.”

Feels Age Wanted Turns Games House Sports Sound Rooms Doors Tvs Aspect Thirds Fortunate Grades Locks Broadcasting Third Grade

Author:Marv Albert

“I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.”

“First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.”

Ifs Firsts Grades Lots Of Money

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.”

Attention Reader Lows Tolerance Boredom Grades Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:Judith Viorst

“As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.”

People Giving Powerful Leader Possibility Offers Approach Expectations Performances Encounters Grades

Author:Benjamin Zander

“I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade.”

Knows Feels Writing Trying Ideas Enough Play Able Tree Pages Thirds Fortunate Grades Good Writing Culmination Third Grade

Author:Dallas Roberts

“When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.”

Years Kids Wanted Artist Poor Students University Grades Good Students

Author:Robert Redford

“As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic”

Fields Trump Becoming Republican Anxiety Lows Grades Establishment Panic

Author:Dalia Mogahed

“After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.”

Whole School Parent Taught Awakening Grades Fourth Rude Divorced Public School Fourth Grade

Author:Justin Theroux

“I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.”

Long Wanted School Young Fun Parent Acting Middle Mom Dad My Dad Grades Principal Middle School Counselor Good Grades

Author:Shailene Woodley

“I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.”

Father Fun Boys Grades

Author:Stephanie McMahon

“I don't think I'd be exaggerating to say that the essence of who I am today is a result of the weight training. It's made me and given me the life that I have. And it goes way back to the eighth grade getting cut, your friends telling you that you can't do it, and you telling yourself that you can.”

Thinking Way Made Today Given Results Cutting Training Essence Weight Who I Am Grades Exaggerating Eighth Grade Weight Training

Author:Jake Steinfeld

“I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.”

Kids Fun Waiting Chance Minutes Discipline Be Good Like Me Grades Plus Wrestling Ninth Grade

Author:Robin Williams

“I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.”

Giving School Students Give Me Grades

Author:Alison Elliott

“I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.”

School Tests Be Good Grades Public School Sixth Grade

Author:Bill Gates

“I remember having a grade-school teacher I thought was a hard-ass. When you're that age, you think the guy is Himmler. Then you visit him eight years later and he's wearing polyester pants, he's four foot eight, you think he's gay, and you're like, 'Are you the guy I was afraid of?”

Thinking Years Hard Age School Remember Guy Teacher Four Feet Gay Eight Ass Grades Pants School Teachers Grades In School Himmler

Author:Jon Stewart

“Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.”

Ifs Thinking Believe House Born Brain Class Shops Grades Collectives Fatherhood Handy Disillusion Eighth Grade

Author:Bob Newhart

“You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.”

Ifs Might Duty Grades Jury Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Jury Duty

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.”

“I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.”

People Firsts Fronts Standing Idiot Grades

Author:Jon Hamm

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