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“And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I know exactly what we have. And so I can then go into the editing room and be like "I want you to do this moment, this moment, this joke, that joke. I'd like to see 3 versions."”

Author:Michael Redd

“When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.”

People States Given Forget Class Teacher Four Praise Arguing Shooting Grades Subtle Never Forget Given Up Sixth Grade Kent

Author:Jello Biafra

“News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means.”

People Way Firsts Mean Children War Body School Names Race Tvs Battle News Racism South Dinner Grades Vietnam Household Bloody Coming Back Really Mean Riot Alabama Grades In School Race Riots

Author:Jello Biafra

“I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that.”

Firsts Play Acting Roles Mom My Mom Indian Grades Chasing Turkeys

Author:Brie Larson

“People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization”

Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887

“I miss third grade because you could kill people in dodgeball. Remember the rules to dodgeball? If you're fat or have glasses, don't show up because you'll die.”

People Ifs Shows Remember Dies Missing Thirds Glasses Fats Grades Third Grade Dodgeball

Author:Jay Mohr

“The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out!”

Bigs Suits Grades Scandal Bathing Seventh Grade Bathing Suits

Author:Jennifer Morrison

“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!”

“I swore I would never get involved in my dad's life. But then he started blowing it. So I had to get involved, you know, but he's my dad, I can't send him to his room or ground him or go to his first grade play and scream, "Look at the fairy!" I was a wood nymph.”

Knows Firsts Looks I Can Play Rooms Dad Involved My Dad Woods Fairy Grades Scream Get Involved Nymphs Blowing It

Author:Christopher Titus

“My friend and I were up to all sorts of shenanigans at school. But one time it ended up disrupting the whole class and we got in trouble. His parents told him he wasn't allowed to hang out with me any more. I had a friendship break-up in third grade. It was brutal.”

Whole School Parent Class Break Trouble My Friends Thirds Grades Hanging Out One Time Brutal Third Grade Shenanigans

Author:Arj Barker

“The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware of it, and Monty Python used to be on PBS at weird hours, so I used to try to watch that. And I loved George Carlin on SNL, that was the first stand-up I ever really remember seeing on TV. And then Steve Martin. I guess I was in fifth or sixth grade when Steve Martin showed up, and he was instantly my idol. And Richard Pryor around the same time too, I sort of became aware of him, though I don't remember the first time I saw him.”

“I was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, along with two of my siblings. The rest were born here in the United States. I didn't know we were illegal until I was in the 8th grade. We would call other kids wetbacks, but we were the real wetbacks!”

Knows Two Real States Kids Born United United States Grades Illegal Mexico Sibling My Siblings

Author:Felipe Esparza

“I listened to my first comedy album in 6th grade. It was Bill Cosby. My brother and I would play it over and over on a Fisher Price record player. A friend in high school also introduced me to Richard Pryor. I wasn't writing material back then, but I would say funny stuff. I was good at making fun of people's moms. If I knew something personal about you, it would be used against you.”

People Ifs Writing Firsts Play Would Be School Used Fun Stuff Records Comedy Player Brother Materials Mom High School Bills Albums My Brother Grades Funny Stuff Record Players

Author:Felipe Esparza

“You can't have an honest fourth grade school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Johnny, your son, your only child, the fruit of your loin, is a moron. I have no idea how this kid finds a door to get out of the house in the morning. If I were you, I would waste him and start over. Now, I say that with all due respect.”

Ifs Children Ideas Kids School House Morning Teacher Doors Honest Son Waste Fruit Dues No Idea Grades Fourth Starting Over Moron Only Child Your Son School Teachers Grades In School Fourth Grade

Author:Dom Irrera

“When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.”

Made School Computer Clubs Chess Grades Going Away Latin Camps Grades In School

Author:Chris Hardwick

“If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.”

Ifs School Names Goal Tough Grades Candy

Author:Carlos Mencia

“[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.”

Has Beens Earth Building Cameras Grades Sooner Or Later Shaking Dimes Railway

Author:William Henry Jackson

“When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you're really good at, what you're kinda good at, what you're okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you're capable of, it's just a matter of opportunity.”

Ifs Knows Matter School Actors Opportunity Realizing College Capable High School Okay Grades Know Yourself Grades In School

Author:Bryan Cranston

“In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.”

School Grades Fourth Fourth Grade

Author:LeBron James

“If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.”

Ifs Stills Play Bigs School Roles Cutting Fine Activity Interviews Grades Neglect Employers Grades In School Internships

Author:Grover Cleveland

“I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”

People Way May Long Has Beens Done Facts America Black Race Taken Wise Dog Higher Long Time Red Stronger Agree Finals Instance Grades Australia Black People Worldly

Author:Winston Churchill

“I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.”

People Littles Said Book Reason Kids Age Guy Saws Skills Thirds Come Up Stores Stuck Reports Grades Toys They Said Little Kid Vinyl Dummy Third Grade Ventriloquism

Author:Jeff Dunham

“I've always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It's always been extreme, but in the last few years I've gotten into balance. I don't restrict myself like I used to.”

Years Kind Different Bigs Kids School Lasts Used Three Grew Balance Grew Up High School Extremes Diets Kicks Grades Italian Vegan Three Years Fifth Fifth Grade Italian Family

Author:Nico Tortorella

“I have a completely worthless degree: a BS in Photojournalism from Boston University (BU). With this degree, I suppose I could have gotten a job teaching grade school kids how to photograph their relatives, but knowing about B&W photo processing and developing and how to shoot a picture story is good basic info that every photographer should have.”

“Doing the show. That 10 AM feeling when the doors open up. Forget about it! Also, my son coming home with a respectable grade on something that I know he's worked hard on. And good health excites me, too.”

Knows Hard Shows Feelings Home Forget Doors Son Grades My Son Coming Home Respectable Good Health

Author:Wendy Williams

“I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school. I remember that I returned home from the hospital and there was a bicycle waiting for me in front of the house, a yellow and red bicycle with a big banana seat on it. This was 1980, and it's still my favorite bike.”

Years Firsts Stills Home Bigs School Remember House Waiting Half Fronts Months Red My Favorite Seats Grades Hospitals Yellow Bike Bicycle Bananas

Author:Brian Littrell

“My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.”

Writing Play Song Stuff Taught Brother Dad Band Guitar My Dad Piano Grades Acoustics Older Brother

Author:Conor Oberst

“And I thought to myself, 'I haven't had a Schlitz since the third grade!”

Havens Thirds Grades Third Grade

Author:Robert Earl Keen

“I know what you're thinking: why is Chris Rock bagging groceries? But I dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, so if I couldn't tell jokes this is exactly what I'd be doing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows School Rocks Jokes High School Grades Groceries

Author:Chris Rock

“A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as he figured it must do. That is why so many men in Wall Street, who are not at all in the sucker class, not even in the third grade, nevertheless lose money. The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.”

Men May Doe Loses Brain Class Streets Wall Beats Thirds Grades Nevertheless Impatient Doubtful Sucker Third Grade

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free!”

Years Three Drug Grades Three Years Drug Free

Author:Dan John

“I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.”

Years Matter Girl Left Hurt Mistake Groups Projects Determination No Matter What Sticks Shoulders Life Changing Grades Hurt Me Chins Bullied Seventh Grade

Author:Megyn Kelly

“It's a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and all that sort of stuff. I just want my child to be happy. I want him to do his best and trust God in the rest, but I'm not going to bully him.”

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Author:Nick Vujicic

“I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.”

Wells Kind Littles Stories Home Kids Class Drawing Grades Margins Notebook Making Up

Author:Meg Cabot

“Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.”

People Trying Years Hands Given Gone Months Profession Grades Given Up Columnists Ninth Grade

Book:Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

Source: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

“As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.”

People Long Made Able Form Term Security Return Offers Activity Investment Rate Permanent Long Term Pleasant Buying Grades Controlled Ownership Nevertheless Conjunctions

Author:Warren Buffett

“I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.”

“During the debate, Palin winked, wrinkled her nose, and gave a shout-out to a third-grade class. Well, you know, that says commander-in-chief to me right there. You betcha!”

Knows Wells Class Thirds Debate Chiefs Noses Grades Commanders Palin Commander In Chief Third Grade Shout Out

Author:David Letterman

“By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.”

Father Phones Grades Fourth Fourth Grade

Author:Dick Cavett

“I love my family but my family - they're the type of people that never let you forget anything you ever did... I was in the first grade Christmas play - I'm playing Mary. Now, during the course of the play, I dropped the baby Jesus... They still talk about this. I go to my family reunion, and one of my cousins just had a baby. So I'm like, 'Oh, that's a cute little baby. Let me hold the baby...' And my aunt runs over, 'Don't you give her that baby! You know she dropped the baby Jesus!'”

“I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.”

Thinking School Style Developing Grades

Author:Victoria Justice

“You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.”

World Firsts School Our Family Grades Other Worlds Kindergarten

Author:Lynne Tillman

“In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.”

People Government Law Position Structure Grades Classroom Fourth Fourth Grade

Author:Kevin Systrom

“In seventh grade I gradually became aware that that quickness of feeling was something I was supposed to have outgrown. I was rather guileless, I think, or at least I was when it came to the people I cared about.”

People Thinking Feelings Grades Quickness Seventh Grade

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

“You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I have one of these early memories where I'm in the back of my parents' car, a place I loved to spend a lot of time as an only child, not having to fight with venomous siblings over the only toy.”

Knows Children Sometimes Remember Faces Fighting Parent Memories Know How Seeing Car Grades Over You Toys Sibling Only Child Venomous

Author:Billy Collins

“I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.”

I Can Young Guitar Grades Playing Guitar Ukulele Scribbles

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“In the seventh grade, I was about to leave wearing a jumper, when my mom said she could see my panty line. So I just wore stockings. That day I broke my ankle, and the EMS cut my tights off. I got a full cast with no stockings on and no panties.”

Said Lines Cutting Mom Casts My Mom Broke Grades Ems Ankles Stockings Panties Tights Jumpers Seventh Grade

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.”

Should School Courses Grows Church Diversity Grades Grades In School Respect Each Other

Author:Valerie June

“When I see vegan food sold in single-use plastic containers, I get frustrated knowing that plastic is not really recycled; it is down-cycled to less and less reusable grades, and too much of it eventually ends up in the ocean - where it kills animals. Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.”

Mean Ends Use Animal Knowing Environment Too Much Ocean Vices Caring Grades Vegan Plastic Frustrated Vice Versa Containers Recycled Vegan Food

Author:Karen Dawn

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