On A High Quotes

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.

I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.

High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?"

I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name.

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology on one side, and on the other side, art.

My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.