“When I graduated from high school, this is in Los Angeles, I was very interested in taking a trip to Mexico to see the archeological sites. So three other people and myself drove down there.” PeopleSchoolThreeHigh SchoolLos AngelesMexicoSite Author:Michelle Stuart
“I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.” SchoolHigh SchoolJuniorsJunior HighArchaeology Author:Michelle Stuart
“My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.” PeopleYearsPlayWantedSchoolNightSongTeacherPiecesTaughtGrewBandGrew UpHigh SchoolMusicalOilNineBackgroundsTexasElitesTimingTraveledOutstandingBucksSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Carl Gardner
“Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.” IfsKnowsFirstsLittlesAgeSchoolPastStuffMessagesHigh SchoolEver AfterSecond Time Around Author:Chuck D
“I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies.” WritingYearsFirstsWholeSchoolFacesSongRecordsSawsMonthsDegreesSixHigh SchoolAlbumsEightWhole LifeYour FaceSix MonthsVaryWriting Music Author:Zooey Deschanel
“In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.” WayStoriesSchoolTogetherSawsCollegeHigh SchoolAdolescenceUnclesAcademyBrooklynLeading MeWilsonReeds Author:Aaron Brookner
“I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.” SchoolThreeSportsFootballBasketballHigh SchoolBaseball Author:Calvin Pryor
“I graduated early from high school, but up until I graduated, I was playing high school hockey. I really enjoy hockey. That's definitely what I do on my days off, for sure.” SchoolEnjoyHigh SchoolHockeyDays Off Author:Sterling Beaumon
“I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs. But he really was the beginning point of starting me on drum sets; like I said, I was in the orchestra first and I was playing orchestral snare and mallet instruments first.” SchoolSongHigh SchoolDrummer Author:Carla Azar
“My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class.” KidsSchoolClassHigh School Author:Geena Davis
“I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.” YoungFatherKingsHigh SchoolGratefulJuniorsJunior High Author:Bridget Carpenter
“As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.” KindChildrenSchoolRocksAdventureHigh SchoolEnlightenedPunkBeing AfraidExperimentationPunk Rock Author:Mark McNairy
“The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.” KidsSchoolEasyLevelsCareersCollegeTypeHigh SchoolProgramGood ThingsDivisionCompetingIdentifyingRecruitEasy ThingsNcaa Author:Billy Kennedy
“That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.” WritingTryingSelfWantedSchoolSongVoicePerspectiveSingingHigh SchoolIntentionPopsTonePunkEmulateDichotomy Author:Laura Benanti
“I think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it's dangerous now.” ThinkingSchoolGirlDangerousStupidHigh SchoolHitchhikingSchool Girl Author:Bo Derek
“I have a lot of people who are soap fans and they definitely know who I am, even if they call me by my character's name. I get a lot of people thinking maybe they know me from high school. My career has been a slow burn, a gradual rise, which I prefer since this is a marathon and not a sprint, so I kind of like where I am and where I'm going.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsKindHas BeensCharacterSchoolNamesCareersFansHigh SchoolWho I AmCall MeKnow MeMarathonSoapSprint Author:Sherri Saum
“I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.” CountrySchoolCitiesDrinkHigh SchoolRiversUpbringingMississippiIowaMississippi RiverKegs Author:Lissie
“And you're figuring out who you are, and you haven't yet become stagnant in your thinking. You haven't solidified. And one thing that I find is that a lot of grown-ups tend to look back on their high school or middle school years and say, "Oh, thank God all that's over."” ThinkingYearsLooksSchoolOne ThingMiddleHavensHigh SchoolWho You AreThank GodStagnantMiddle SchoolSchool Years Author:Lauren Myracle
“My mom was my English teacher in high school. So to be able to bend the rules and be the class clown and get to take on my religion, my mom, and my town all at the same time was glorious. I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit. If you're cracking a joke in school, it's sort of anti-authority, but it's in the nicest, "Please like me!" way.” IfsThinkingWayAbleSchoolDesireBitsClassTeacherMomPleaseAuthorityJokesHigh SchoolTownsMy MomLike MeGloriousClownMixturesElbowsEnglish Teacher Author:Paul Rust
“Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.” WayBigsKidsSchoolFeltCreativeGayHigh SchoolFemaleAspectTheatreFortunateSensitiveBeing Gay Author:Christopher Rice
“I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".” ThinkingLooksSchoolRememberGrowing UpGrowingHigh SchoolFatsMessPoundsPictures Of Myself Author:Viola Davis
“I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.” PlaySchoolCollegeCoupleHigh SchoolJuniorsJunior HighHigh School Junior Author:Jodie Foster
“You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWayLooksIdeasWholeBigsSchoolRoomsPowerfulTalkingInfluenceStudentsHigh SchoolBusySpreadBunchGirlfriendReach OutLecturesCampusDisrespectfulAuditoriumsHigh School Students Author:Seth Godin
“It's more mental in the NFL than it was in high school. In high school you just line up and close the gap. In the NFL you have to do the right things so the team can win.” SchoolWinningLinesTeamHigh SchoolRight ThingNflGaps Author:Raylee Johnson
“Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.” KnowsWorldWantPersonsHandsSchoolLastsStuffWeekFiguresPoliticianRepublicanHigh SchoolShameDemocratCompromisePettyPointingJuniorsJunior High Author:Ice Cube
“A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they take it in college, they still don't pass it. So the Carnegie Foundation got together and created two accelerated courses that focus on real-world applications of numbers like for health, for civics, for personal finance - concepts that you and I use every single day.” WorldStillsTwoRealUseSchoolTogetherCoursesCommunityLevelsNumbersFocusStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolConceptsFoundationMajorityMathStuckFinanceReal WorldApplicationCivicsPersonal FinanceCarnegieCommunity College Author:Anya Kamenetz
“Talk about high school and what we identify with in the play; things that have happened to us and all of our high school experiences that we could bring to this. And to talk about what everyone knows in each specific scene.” KnowsPlaySchoolHappenedSceneHigh SchoolSchool Experience Author:Sarah Steele
“I think that's also why it's so exciting. I really believe this play is important these are issues that people don't talk about. Certainly they never talked about this type of thing at my high school. That's what makes it so hard for kids. But it is something that people do go through.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantHardPlayKidsSchoolIssuesTypeHigh SchoolExciting Author:Sarah Steele
“I'm taking a pretty light load. I'm doing well. Gideon and Jason are both in school too, so we find time between shows to get work done, and during the day. I really like Columbia. Unlike high school, I don't feel any pressure to get straight-As. I just like learning.” FeelsWellsDoneShowsLightSchoolHigh SchoolPressureLoadJasonWork DoneColumbiaGideon Author:Sarah Steele
“In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids are weird and different and over-achievers. They know what they want and they're going after it. They're weird and they don't deny it. That's what makes it special.” PeopleKnowsWantDifferentSometimesShowsKidsSchoolSpecialHigh SchoolDenyAchiever Author:Sarah Steele
“I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.” StillsSchoolRememberRocksHigh SchoolClassicStationsDiscoveringBlown AwayClassic Rock Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo
“I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.” PlaySchoolActingCareersHigh SchoolDecidedIncrediblesPursue Author:Pawel Szajda
“Elementary and high school students will still be tested under the new law. There just won't be so much riding on the scores. Also the arts didn't disappear under the old law, No Child Left Behind. But, Christopher Woodside of the National Association for Music Education says with so much time spent testing math and reading, the arts suffered.” ChildrenArtStillsSchoolLawReadingLeftBehindsStudentsHigh SchoolMathDisappearScoreAssociationRidingTestedTestingLeft BehindTime SpentMusic EducationHigh School StudentsNo Child Left Behind Author:Elizabeth Blair Lee
“By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.” PeopleSchoolFoundCallingMusicianHigh SchoolSeniorHeadphonesHigh School Senior Author:Nicolas Jaar
“I definitely straddled the line and hung out with high-school dirtbags. I'd tell my parents I was spending the night at my friend's but actually go to Philly and see a show at Starlight Ballroom. I would drink and do all that stuff, but I didn't set any barns on fire.” ShowsSchoolNightStuffParentLinesFireDrinkHigh SchoolMy FriendsSpendingHungBarnsBallroomStarlightDirtbags Author:Daughn Gibson
“I studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school. And it took me about five years of hit-or-miss auditioning and booking on occasion before I could support myself totally as an actor.” YearsFirstsSchoolActorsActingSupportFiveWeekMissingHigh SchoolSeriesAgentsOccasionsFive Years Author:Bob Bergen
“My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.” ChildrenSchoolMotherNightParentTeacherFourCollegeDegreesHigh SchoolOur ChildrenProvidence Author:Tad Devine
“My parents, neither one of them went to college. That wasn't available to them. But, you know, we had a wonderful life. You know, it - you know, we lived in what would now be considered poverty, but, you know, it didn't feel like poverty when I was living it. I had a great time and got a - had a great experience. I went to Catholic school through high school. I had a wonderful education.” KnowsFeelsSchoolParentPovertyWonderfulCollegeHigh SchoolCatholicAvailableGreat TimesGreat ExperiencesWonderful LifeCatholic SchoolHad A Great Time Author:Tad Devine
“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.” SchoolHigh SchoolMovedSpeedPursueFreakBucksBrooklynCountyDealerPennsylvaniaDropoutsSchool DropoutHigh School Dropout Author:Britta Phillips
“Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school, I haven't even touched a guitar.” SchoolBitsMiddleHavensBandHigh SchoolJazzGuitarTouchedMiddle SchoolAfter High SchoolJazz BandLife After High School Author:Mike Tucker
“In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.” SchoolStuffPlayerListeningHigh SchoolJazzNerdMonkHornsBudPussy Author:Bill Orcutt
“I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.” SchoolTheoryHigh SchoolHalfwaySemesterMusic Theory Author:Blake Judd
“I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.” PlaySchoolGirlHouseBandMountainHigh SchoolInstrumentsCoffeeSingersHopsWayneHighlightsPennsylvaniaZeppelinsMistyCoffee HousesMisty Mountains Author:Victoria Legrand
“The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.” ShouldSchoolYoungGuyVoiceNiceLike YouOne DaySingingHigh SchoolSingersHonestly Author:Victoria Legrand
“I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.” RealSchoolJobsActingHigh SchoolReal Jobs Author:Zoe Kravitz
“I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.” SometimesHomeAgeSchoolRocksCarCollegeListeningHigh SchoolRadioSpendingDrivingAlternativesClassicAway From HomeSoakingClassic RockGood CollegeAlternative Rock Author:Craig Finn
“I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.” LittlesI CanSchoolCommunityStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolLifestyleHatedCommunity College Author:Zach Condon
“But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.” MaySchoolFightingLanguageBecomingRight NowHigh SchoolMajorityCaliforniaTensionGangMexicanSan FranciscoEmergingFilipinoRacial Tension Author:Richard Rodriguez
“The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.” WayFirstsHomeSchoolJobsNew YorkHigh SchoolStoresDepartmentDepartment Stores Author:Frankie Knuckles
“I don't think unfriending your old crush on Facebook will do much other than remove him from your Facebook feed. Don't beat yourself up over what you dream about; there are a lot worse things that could slip across the transom of your unconscious mind than an old high school crush who was always nice to you.” ThinkingMindDreamSchoolNiceBeatsHigh SchoolCrushUnconsciousRemoveYour FaceSlipsUnconscious Mind Author:Mallory Ortberg