Best High School Dropout Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“I sit back and try to think. I've been discovering, much to my dismay, that I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything. I'm just brute force and my powers in no way include super-intelligence, which kind of pisses me off.”

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Book:The Girl Who Would Be King

Source: The Girl Who Would Be King

“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.”

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Author:Adam Oates

“Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share.”

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Author:Jared Bernstein

“Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.”

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Author:David Brooks

“High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.”

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Author:Cedric Richmond

“The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.”

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Author:Fred Thompson

“I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.”

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Author:David Ayer

“Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.”

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Book:The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between

Source: The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between

“Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.”

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Author:Kamala Harris

“I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.”

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Author:Britta Phillips

“I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, 'You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?' I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there”

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Author:Hilary Swank

“Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.”

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Author:Nolan Bushnell

“High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.”

“I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.”

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Author:Hilary Swank