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My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Steve Jobs
Tags: Out Had Would
I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
Dave Grohl
Tags: Out Go Myself
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
Amy Adams
Tags: Want Go School
I have normal friends. I sit at my house, and they practically live with me, and I watch them get ready to go to a high school party, hang out with their friends, go to concerts.
Kylie Jenner
Tags: Me Get Out
Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.
Ellen Ochoa
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
Judd Apatow
Tags: Great People Most
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I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.


Grant Achatz
Tags: Never School High
I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.
Danny Pudi
Tags: Work Out Always
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I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.


Patti Stanger
Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.
Nolan Bushnell
Tags: Best Out Had
I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren't exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.
Samuel Witwer
Tags: Me Never Go
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.
Mickey Mantle
Tags: Time Good Just
I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
Abigail Washburn
Tags: Time Some Then
I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.
William Mapother
I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.
Adam DeVine
Tags: You Because Out
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.
Johnny Mize
Tags: School High Fact
All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
Magic Johnson
It's important for closet gay athletes everywhere, not just at the professional level, but more importantly athletes at the younger level in high school and college, to understand they do have support around them and that they can come out and feel comfortable. And honestly, that is going to help save lives.
Scott Fujita
Tags: Just More Out
My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that's the one I wore before I got to high school and had to pick a different one.
Jason Aldean
Tags: Because Had Other
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.


Carl Lewis
Tags: Work Down School