Rodney Brooks
Related I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I ... BETTY WHO AARON PATZER I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar s... SHANICE WILLIAMS My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my clas... MIKE VOGEL THOMAS MCGUANE In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart a... DAVID SPADE When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D.... CAROLINE LAWRENCE I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. ... KELLY OLYNYK I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju... LA'PORSHA RENAE MALLORY JANSEN E. L. KONIGSBURG Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi... STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid ... ALEXANDER CHEE I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y... CHARLIE EBERSOL MAYER HAWTHORNE I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I... ROMEO MILLER I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal lif... EMILIANO SALINAS MARLO THOMAS My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was i... ELOISE MUMFORD I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers... JOSIE LOREN JONATHAN DEMME CAROL ANN DUFFY STERLING K. BROWN My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I... GOODLUCK JONATHAN I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Col... CAROL W. GREIDER I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ... TAYLOR SHERIDAN MAGGIE STIEFVATER At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the ci... FINN JONES J. J. WATT MAYA ANGELOU I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a n... ADAM RAPP FRANK MCCOURT AMY TAN RODNEY KING AVA DUVERNAY JANET JACKSON I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, ... JEFF AMENT At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to bui... COLIN ANGLE I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points. EDDIE MARSAN I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g... SIMON COWELL In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn&... FREDDIE PRINZE KID ROCK MALIN AKERMAN ERIC DAVIS When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Auss... JONATHAN LAPAGLIA ANONYMOUS GEORGE BURNS I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and ... NATASCHA MCELHONE My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he... ALEC BERG HARRY SHUM, JR. AVI As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called '... PETER MORGAN OWAIN YEOMAN ALEXIS STEWART BRENE BROWN JULIAN CASTRO I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding ... JOSEPH MAWLE When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: ... HAROLD E. VARMUS ELIZABETH GILBERT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ANTHONY HOPKINS I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their sc... BOJANA NOVAKOVIC I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my ... MIKE ROWE PHILIP ZIMBARDO I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was... JANE LYNCH LAUREN GRAHAM When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good stu... THOMAS MCDONELL STERLING K. BROWN HERSCHEL WALKER BEYONCE KNOWLES TOMMY CHONG I was a baseball player and a football player at Stanford, so I didn't play a lot of golf in col... JOHN ELWAY BROCK LESNAR MACAULAY CULKIN KATHLEEN HANNA JOHN SALLEY BRIAN BLESSED JESSE BALL I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my ... TALULAH RILEY CARRE OTIS KENDRICK LAMAR I grew up in a very traditional family, but there was never anything I didn't think I could do. HUMA ABEDIN E. L. KONIGSBURG I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at... MARK RONSON JHUMPA LAHIRI KELSEA BALLERINI I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at t... MANDY PATINKIN My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di... TAMARA TUNIE PAIGE VANZANT My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a ba... DANIELLA ALONSO MATTHEW QUICK By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor. 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