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“I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.”

“When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.”

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“I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.”

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Author:Tila Tequila

“Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.”

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Author:Zoe Tapper

“High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.”

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Author:Jenna Ushkowitz

“When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.”

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Author:Jenna Ushkowitz

“I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.”

People Has Beens School Records High School Crowds Selling Hey Very Happy

Author:Bobby Vinton

“I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.”

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Author:Bobby Vinton

“I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.”

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Author:James Franco

“Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.”

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Author:Charles M. Vest

“My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.”

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Author:James Franco

“School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.”

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Author:James Franco

“I've thought about going back to school.”

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Author:Emily VanCamp

“When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.”

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Author:James Franco

“In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.”

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Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.”

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Author:Rumer Willis

“Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.”

Use Age Today School Young Social Technology Generations Media Communication Phones Entertainment Social Media Exposed Young Women Young Age Mobile Tablets Mobile Phones School Work

Author:Susan Wojcicki

“I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.”

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Author:Alexander Wang

“You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.”

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Author:Alexander Wang

“I loved doing problems in school.”

Problem School Problems In School

Author:Andrew Wiles

“You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.”

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Author:Benjamin Walker

“The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.”

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Author:Dan Wheldon

“I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.”

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Author:David Walliams

“I did drop out of school.”

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Author:Don Was

“I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa.”

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Author:George Weah

“When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.”

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Author:George Weah

“If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.”

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Author:George Weah

“Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.”

“We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.”

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Author:Jack White

“My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.”

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Author:Julie Walters

“Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“I was fresh out of drama school and had no idea what I was doing. They hustled me along and Bill Cosby tolerated my rookie behavior. It was great. Once you have 'The Cosby Show' on your resume, you can keep going.”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.”

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Author:Sela Ward

“Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.”

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Author:Shailene Woodley

“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.”

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Author:Shailene Woodley

“I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.”

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Author:Walter Jon Williams

“I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.”

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Author:Angus Young

“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”

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Author:Muhammad Yunus

“My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.”

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Author:Robin Yount

“You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.”

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Author:Roy Yamaguchi

“I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.”

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Author:Trisha Yearwood

“I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.”

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Author:Thomas Howes

“I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.”

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Author:Timothy Simons

“At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.”

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Author:Paulo Freire

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