Out of 3,500 students in my high school, I was the only openly professing Christian kid. Obviously there were challenges. 'Only old and stupid people believe.'
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MIROSLAV VOLF I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my stud... JACK CANFIELD We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckles... DACRE MONTGOMERY There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid star... AUTRE NE VEUT When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I s... EDMUND WHITE In talking with Ulysses Reed, superintendent of the Marvell School, we discussed keeping the element... DON HAMILTON In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I ... MAGGIE ROWE There were only two fights that broke out and only four students were suspended. Within a half an ho... DEB BAKER The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids ... SCOTT FUJITA Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than... RUBEN HINOJOSA I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole ... MARK HAMILL I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my se... MATTHEW PERRY Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and the... PETER FALK I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird rec... IAN ANTHONY DALE Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school. LEBRON JAMES I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their sc... BOJANA NOVAKOVIC McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are... ADAM MCKAY For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based ... DANIEL CLOWES I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork... MAMIE GUMMER It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school. RICK MERCER I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she... MAE WHITMAN Up until midway through my freshman year, I just thought it was kind of something high school studen... BOBBY JOHNSON I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all... KEITH STANFIELD My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. ... TAYLOR SWIFT I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid. My friend - his name is William Aston - w... LIL UZI VERT The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. 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I like 'The Dark Knight.' I really liked, when I was a ki... MATTHEW STAFFORD My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf ... KAREN DUFFY There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to ... EDDIE PLANK I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school... GABRIEL LUNA Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't? GARRY TRUDEAU I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old H... IRV KUPCINET In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came... LAURA HARRIER My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get... PAUL THEROUX In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre p... DONNIE WAHLBERG There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in ... KARAN SINGH GROVER I was always really smart in school. My whole family is smart. We have 'Jeopardy' challenges... REMY MA I was the only kid in school who ate kippers on toast for breakfast. BRUCE MATHEWS The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a... GARRETT HEDLUND Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH In junior high, I was picked on for being the small skinny kid who enjoyed being in drama. All the d... BLAKE JENNER The high school exit exam still impacts only a very, very small number of regular ed students. CARL WONG I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that w... DANICA PATRICK I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held pris... 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JENA MALONE I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about h... BRAD FELD When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the dri... FOREST WHITAKER It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very i... DIANE KRUGER My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way throug... JENNA MORASCA Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much ... TESS GERRITSEN 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 I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway... MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. ALAN BALL In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, th... JULIANNE MOORE I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our ... MINDY KALING I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired gir... ADELAIDE CLEMENS I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In ter... ED HARRIS I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so ... PAUL WALKER
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