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Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they`re an explicit acknowledgment that what you`re doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycl...
Derrick Jensen
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Brock Blassingame
Keywords: acquires :: education :: grade :: higher :: is :: method :: of :: one :: prejudices :: wherebySubject: Education Quotes :: Prejudice QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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In the 8th Grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let`s face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn`t want to translate myself in that direct...
Robert Davi
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[Referring to his 0.7 grade point average in college] "It`s pretty hard to get a point seven. You have to do close to nothing."
The Rock
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I had no choice. I *had* to act. I could memorize anything plus I only felt comfortable and safe on stage. And this was from nursery school to kindergarten and onward and continues up to this day. I played Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice" in the third grade...
Bud Cort
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I never really thought I`d make the grade. And let`s face it, I haven`t.
George Sanders
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In the second grade, I went to a friend`s house and we snuck into the original Nightmare on Elm Street. I was absolutely terrified for a month, because I had never been allowed to watch movies like this. My mother had to take me to the pediatrician to fig...
Monica Keena
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I went to a place called the Berkley Film Institute for a summer program with a grade school friend of mine, and we just thought it was a joke. It was very impressionist, very Berkley. There were all these people who were there to communicate and change t...
David Fincher
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I was in third grade when Rapper`s Delight changed my life. But, when I came home, my mother would be listening to Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Diana Ross. I want to include all those elements in my music.
Jennifer Lopez
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I don`t like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I`d hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don`t think it was necessarily `cause...
Eminem
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In fifth grade I was Templeton the Rat in a production of `Charlotte`s Web`. I remember I had a friend who worked in a doughnut shop. I`d go in, get a doughnut and sit there with my script, going over the lines and making notes in the margin. I was seriou...
Don Cheadle
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Really, he called me that? Ellen Degenerate? I`ve been getting that since the fourth grade. I guess I`m happy I could give him work. [When told in an interview that, after she revealed her homosexuality, Jerry Falwell called her `Ellen Degenerate`.]
Ellen DeGeneres
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(Early in her career about husband Eddie Judson) "I owe everything to Ed. I could never have made the grade in Hollywood without him. I was just too backward. My whole career was his idea."
Rita Hayworth
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[Dealing with mean girls in school] "I switched schools in the middle of second grade, and it was tough because I had to go right into a new school where I didn`t know anybody. I made friends eventually, but then when I started acting in California, a lot...
Hilary Duff
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I can vividly recall telling a joke in, like, second grade and realizing it was funnier if I didn`t laugh. I`ve been deadpan ever since.
David Pierce
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I`ve only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I`m a maniac.
Ray Liotta
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Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I ...
Ving Rhames
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[Referring to his 0.7 grade point average in college] "It`s pretty hard to get a point seven. You have to do close to nothing."
The Rock
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It`s great because when you go home you`re the person you were in sixth grade! - talking about being one of seven children
Bonnie Hunt
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Peter Sellers, Dan Aykroyd, the whole original SNL cast. Lorne Michaels is a hero of mine. I did a project on him in grade eight. He`s a Canadian hero. He`s a man of impeccable taste. And Gilda Radner was a big hero of mine. - When asked `Who are some of ...
Mike Myers
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In grade school I was a complete geek. You know, there`s always the kid who`s too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who`s not athletic. Well, I was all three.
Julianne Moore
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About her dyslexia: It was really difficult and frustrating back when I was really young in school. We finally figured out what it was when I was in third grade, probably like 8-years old, which was relieving, because when you are young and you have troub...
Ashley Scott
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When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.
Pink
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I have been acting since I was in high school. Perhaps even before then if you count all the times I "acted" like I was sick in grade school to get out of going, (those were some of my best performances). Happily, I have worked fairly consistently, howeve...
Rachel Luttrell
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[in 2001 interview] I sang all my life. My parents had me singing around the house when I was younger. I`m not from a showbiz family or anything. It`s just something I enjoyed doing. When I started getting into seventh or eighth grade, I became part of th...
Josh Groban
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It was a bold interpretation, I didn`t shave my head. - on his first acting role, which was Daddy Warbucks in a 5th grade production of `Annie`.
John Krasinski
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In seventh grade I cried every single day when I came back from shooting The Professional. My friends were not my friends. They were saying, `She thinks she`s so hot now,` things like that, and it was the most painful thing I`ve ever gone through. Clearly...
Natalie Portman
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You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.
Gregory Corso
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Without those days they can`t progress forward into the next grade, so that`s a concern of a lot of families too. That their child`s education is going to progress at the same pace that it`s supposed to.
John Schultz
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When the company first got started, we were in my mom and dad`s house, in 1973, and the office was in my bedroom. My dad started teaching me about statistics when I was in fourth grade, things I wouldn`t see in school until college. I`ve always found this...
David James
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