On A High Quotes

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.

People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by bullies. But it's actually quite the contrary.

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.

I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.

Why do people care what I'm wearing or what I'm eating, and why are people looking down on me because I'm not wearing high heels? That's the downside to being in the public eye.

Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing - everything from high fashion to street fashion.

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.

I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into sororities and fraternities and I didn't.

When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.

I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

I think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it's dangerous now.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink a lot of herbal tea.

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.

My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama class in high school.

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.