I've been kind of in favor of a new high school, but I can't see having two high schools with 500 kids each.
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MARK THOMSON He's not just an exceptional high school kid playing against average high school kids. He's an excep...
BILL WHITEHEAD I know they're high school kids, but they don't act like high school kids and to give these kids thi...
KAREN HALL I'm quite proud of them. They did extremely well, not only against the small schools, but also the l...
DENISE MOORE I can't speak for the board, but I think their intention is because 1,600 students would be quite...
JAN LANTZ It's now the largest high school bowling program in the country, based on figures from the National ...
RANDY ALLEN With the Texas Teacher of the Year (Karen Shepherd of Plano Senior High School) right here in Plano ...
KARLA OLIVER I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
NATE TORRENCE I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood di...
TONY HAWK I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got ...
MERRITT WEVER I've fought against that high school more than anyone, and I voted in favor of this.
RICK CAPORALE We had 500 students attending workshops from 20 middle school and high schools throughout the Arizon...
JASON CARNEY We need three more elementary schools, two more intermediates and another high school. We never have...
JEFF ALEXANDER I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, a...
HILARY DUFF I was in L.A. having dinner with a guy I'd known in high school,
JASON RITTER A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... A number of state and federal companies are interested in putting a wind (lab) in schools and Walsen...
ED JOHNSON I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is...
FRANK MCCOURT It's just absolutely unfair. We have many students in parochial elementary schools who elect to go t...
LAWRENCE BOWMAN By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning act...
MICHAEL J. FOX Having been unpopular in high school is not a just cause for book publication
FRAN LEBOWITZ For many districts who are planning a high school, it will be the only new high school they are goin...
DAVID M. MARONEY When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never se...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I coul...
JOSH DALLAS In those days, up until kids went to high school, it was customary to go to school barefoot. But in ...
BILL DAYTON Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, movin...
MARCIA GAY HARDEN Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
NATALIE MASSENET That's a play you just don't see high school kids making. That's something you see in college and NB...
EMANUEL DAVIS Some people are worried about not having as strong of leads, but that's not what high school is abou...
GRACE MORGAN Everyone just kind of looks at you in a whole new light because, I mean, it's a real blend of mascul...
MAT GUIDA A lot of high school kids, even middle school kids, don't even think of oral sex as sex.
DENNIS MARTELL As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
BO JACKSON Kids got a high school diploma out of 8th grade.
LYNN WOMACK Everyone was shocked because of their new assessment of property. It's been two years since then and...
KAREN VEIT When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It w...
DAPHNE ZUNIGA There is no perfect or ideal size for a high school. Top-level student achievement can be seen in hi...
JUDY JEFFREY Most kids around here arrive in high school with their arms intact.
BILL FOLEY In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through gr...
DAVE COOPER There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden C...
JILL SCOTT I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little ...
D. B. SWEENEY The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doe...
WINNIE HOLZMAN You could watch 500 high school games and not see that. It makes up for not being in the same distri...
JEFF MORROW If you look at the research on high schools and the most effective learning opportunities, you'll se...
CHRISTINE SCHILD When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked express...
ROSALIND WISEMAN I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I gra...
ODETTE ANNABLE I have been employed at Mounds Schools for the past 23 years as a high school principal, coach, and ...
DENNIS CAMPBELL I have been employed at Mounds Schools for the past 23 years as a high school principal, coach, and ...
DENNIS CAMPBELL We do have a pretty big advantage with Sharon having been a Miss Indiana Basketball and having been ...
JODY BENNER It's related in that it's school holidays and kids are not in school. Be it high school or college o...
DAVID BAILEY I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high s...
DAVID LACHAPELLE I.O. was kind of like comedy high school. Everybody knows each other, dated each other, performed to...
AMY POEHLER A high school student with this kind of background would be an asset anywhere they went.
ERIC SPINA In the past, our special ed kids sometimes took out-of-level tests, so a high school kid might take ...
DAVE WILMES Students need to take more college preparatory courses in high school, and schools need to begin for...
RAY GRASSHOFF Up until midway through my freshman year, I just thought it was kind of something high school studen...
BOBBY JOHNSON Yeah, this is the time of year when we get out to the high schools and see what kind of talent is ou...
BOB MILLER In general, the private schools have run away with the high-quality players. Every year we've lost h...
PATRICK ALVIN It was kind of awkward at first because a lot of us played against each other for a lot of years in ...
JAKE WORLEY I didn't date my wife in high school, but she was definitely by far the coolest woman there. She...
ERIC MABIUS That, and my first real serious boyfriend, kind of ended my high school running career. That was pre...
LYNN LAFREE In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre p...
DONNIE WAHLBERG In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart a...
DAVID SPADE I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind...
LOUIS C. K. I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.
CAROL BURNETT I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when ...
PETER NOONE My first two months have been amazing. I could still be in high school, trying to get 5-10.
DESTINEE HOOKER It's a lot of fun. The kids are pumped. The morale is very high. It's been a great two weeks.
BILL FISHER My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get...
PAUL THEROUX We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung ...
CHELSEA PERETTI I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be ...
LAURA MARANO The show has a little bit of variation, ... but it's all music high school and college kids would li...
ERIC MYERS In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go t...
DANIELLE BROOKS It is pretty widespread in middle and high school kids.
JENNIFER JACA I really think it's dangerous for the NBA this year. A lot of NBA scouts are starting to feel comfor...
DAVE TELEP When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High S...
FLEA And having performed in high school productions and college productions I was primarily familiar wit...
DAVID NAUGHTON (Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's hi...
ERIC ALBRIGHT Since I have been gone so long, my greatest memories are in high school my growing up, ... I was inv...
JOE SEARS When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple ...
JILLIAN ROSE REED I like working with any kids. There are different challenges working with different age groups. I ge...
DEBBIE PADUDA I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on ...
DEAN SMITH I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes - my kids, high scho...
TOM BRADY It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with...
BEN CASNOCHA Were a pretty tight-knit community. But also, any of the funds raised go to scholarships for high sc...
WENDY WILSON It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about...
TAYLOR SWIFT I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got...
GRANT SHOW Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
BETH HENLEY We've been as low as 150 and as high as 500.
ARMY CAPT. PERNITA DUGGAL A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ...
DAN ABRAMS We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.
SANTIAGO DURANGO Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all ...
MALLORY JANSEN I have been to high schools all across Montana. If you haven't been to them look lately, I will take...
BRIAN SCHWEITZER While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. ...
JANE YOLEN Any time you introduce a new school, it affects the feeder patterns of the surrounding schools. Ther...
WOODY MCMILLIN High school basketball in the smaller schools, you know you?re going to have your down years. I can ...
MIKE ROMPS Compared to the modern high school athlete, Dom is definitely one-of-a-kind.
BOB ESPOSITO Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actr...
MINDY KALING The overall goal is to increase the number of kids who get high school diplomas . ... I thought mayb...
JULIE GARCIA When I was in high school I had two favorite subjects, lunch and recess.
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KAREN HUGHES Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
KAREN HORNEY Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
KAREN HORNEY Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
KAREN HORNEY I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural labore...
KAREN HESSE Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why ...
KAREN HESSE From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive an...
KAREN HESSE While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an amb...
KAREN HESSE In life, sometimes you just lose.
KAREN HANDEL Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!
KAREN HANDEL I don't want to see any taxpayer funding going towards... a couple that is not married.
KAREN HANDEL I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married,...
KAREN HANDEL I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich...
KAREN HANDEL Let me be clear: since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.
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KAREN HANDEL Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
KAREN HANDEL People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.
KAREN HANDEL These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should n...
KAREN HANDEL Clearly, there have been changes in the climate.
KAREN HANDEL I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
KAREN HANDEL Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
KAREN HANDEL It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a ...
KAREN HANDEL I think it's clear that Planned Parenthood has worked to mislead the public about who they are.....
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KAREN HANDEL I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow fro...
KAREN HANDEL I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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KAREN HANDEL I do not support a livable wage.
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KAREN GILLAN I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and ...
KAREN GILLAN I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the dif...
KAREN GILLAN The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many p...
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KAREN GILLAN I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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KAREN FINERMAN Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, b...
KAREN FINERMAN Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The k...
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KAREN FINERMAN I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no cu...
KAREN FINERMAN Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
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KAREN ELSON I was always the weirdo at school.
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KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
KAREN BASS It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
KAREN BASS All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I...
KAREN ARMSTRONG Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creeda...
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