“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.” WritingRealStoriesSchoolCultureTeamFootballBearsInvolvedHigh SchoolMagazinesFootball TeamPariahs Author:Tom Perrotta
“I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.” GovernmentWantedSchoolInterestTeacherInvolvedHigh SchoolCivicsHistory Teacher Author:Olivia de Havilland
“I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.” SchoolStuffRocksCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolDancingSingersPunkPunk RockRock Bands Author:Brian Dietzen
“I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.” StillsDifferentStoriesWantedSchoolCoursesAudienceStageFrontsTelevisionInvolvedHigh SchoolExcitingTheaterLuxuryGet BackBroadway Author:Dennis Haysbert
“The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.” SchoolGamesTeamInvolvedBasketballHigh SchoolShotsScandalBasketball Game Author:Darby Stanchfield
“I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.” SchoolEffectsInvolvedHigh SchoolProfoundClassical Music Author:Benjamin Carson
“Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.” PeopleIfsWorldWarFactsSchoolWonderPossibilityInvolvedHigh SchoolDamnWar Of The WorldsWhat IfWowWorld War IiImaginaryWorld War I Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld
“I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.” WaySchoolChurchRoomsGroupsCollegeInvolvedPicksHigh SchoolShelterVolunteerHomelessHighwaysTrashGet InvolvedHometownSororityVolunteer Work Author:Carrie Underwood
“You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.” IfsHas BeensMightSchoolMotherFightingSportsEventsInvolvedHigh SchoolFistsRedneckYou Might Be A Redneck If Book:You might be a redneck if-- Source: You might be a redneck if--
“I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.” SchoolInvolvedHigh SchoolPressureGossipClique Author:Alicia Keys
“After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.” StillsSchoolGamesCompanyCasesPlayerCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolNbaComing OutKevinNikeAfter High SchoolLife After High School Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a very cruel, oppressive dictatorship, and the revolution started in the high schools and the universities. So when I was 14, I was involved in the revolution. I was in the revolution four years. During that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up in Cuba, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.” YearsAgeSchoolYoungSufferingNamesBornTalkingLeaderFourRevolutionInvolvedHigh SchoolRoseUniversityFour YearsDictatorshipCubaCharismaticCastroHope And Change Author:Ted Cruz
“At the end of the elementary program, I then had to move onto high school. Simultaneously, my parents moved to Attica to a suburban area not far from the well-known Attica State Prison. Then I would take the school bus which was a very short distance away, where I was involved with a much larger community.” WellsEndsStatesSchoolMovingParentCommunityKnownInvolvedHigh SchoolAreasProgramMovedDistancePrisonBusWell KnownSchool Bus Author:Paul Smith
“I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.” ThinkingFirstsDoneWantedSchoolGirlSexTeachingPolicyCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolProgramProfessorsForeign PolicyGeorgetown Author:Madeleine Albright
“US Cycling is doing a lot now with camps in different towns or different regions, but I think a great place, and I'm not sure how much it's been hit, is camps for people that are involved in other sports. Why not put on camps for high school kids that are cross-country runners, because those are the some of the best cyclists.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCountryKidsSchoolSportsInvolvedHigh SchoolCrossesTownsNot SureRegionsWhy NotCampsRunnersCyclingCyclists Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I'm not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process. We do the same thing with all our players. We take a look, as I said, at their personal family life, we look at the history of what they've done in high school and college.” PeopleLooksSaidDoneAbleSchoolProcessPlayerCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolOngoingFamily LifeJudicial Author:Bill Belichick
“Concurrently, while I was in school, while I was winning awards for acting, I was winning awards for singing, in high school. One of the reasons why I decided to continue on with the acting was the opera world is fraught with a very long process, and I did love the acting, as well. The acting took off sooner, and then you get involved with that.” WorldWellsLongReasonSchoolWinningProcessActingInvolvedSingingHigh SchoolDecidedReason WhyAwardsOperaGet InvolvedWinning Awards Author:Robert Davi
“When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved thinking, but science seemed to be all about memorizing facts and doing mindless calculations.” ThinkingFactsSchoolFoundLiteratureInterestingInvolvedHigh SchoolCalculationsMindlessMemorizing Author:Elliott Sober
“In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.” WantBookSchoolInvolvedPagesHigh SchoolEightMagazinesLengthYearbookTaftHigh School Yearbook Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war. It doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone should do something. I'm looking around and, like, I am someone, and I might not be able to do everything, but I can do something.” ShouldI CanIdeasWarSeemsMightAbleSchoolCan DoInvolvedHigh SchoolIraqActivistGood IdeasIraq WarCan Do Something Author:Eugene Puryear
“Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year there. I took a semester off to start my 2nd year. Took classes I felt like taking during my third semester, but by the start of my third year, September of '86, they began the undergraduate jazz program and I joined that program.” YearsFirstsArtSchoolFeltClassCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolProgramThirdsJazzStartingSeptemberFinishingManhattanMcdonaldsJustinUndergraduateSemester Author:Jon Gordon
“To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.” IfsKindBookSchoolFoundFantasyCrazyHonestCollegeInvolvedFitElementsHigh SchoolExcitedMoodBeing HonestNot SureLiberatingImageryGet RealPsychedelicSurrealismExtravagantLorcaSchool English Author:Elaine Equi
“My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.” WaySchoolFunConditionsInvolvedHigh SchoolConceptsConcernMathematicsMath Author:Danica McKellar
“When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.” SchoolLinesInvolvedHigh SchoolActiveJuniorsCheerleaderJunior HighCheerleading Author:Faith Ford
“Well let me tell you what [High School Musical] is really about. High School Musical is about this group of boys who are all being molested by the basketball coach, who is Zac Efron's dad. It's about them struggling to cope with this molestation. And they have these little girlfriends, who are their beards. Oh, and somehow there's music involved. You have to get stoned to watch it.” WellsLittlesSchoolBoysWatchesStruggleGroupsDadInvolvedBasketballHigh SchoolLet MeMusicalCoachesGirlfriendBeardBasketball CoachMolestationHigh School Musical Author:Megan Fox