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In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.
Mark Hamill
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My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.


Diane Abbott
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If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.
Tim Gunn
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I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it.


Lindsay Lohan
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I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
Peter Capaldi
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When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.
Joe Manganiello
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I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.


Hayao Miyazaki
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
Marilyn Hacker
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I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.


George Dyson
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I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.


Kristen Wiig
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The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.
Michelle Rodriguez
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A daydream is an evasion.


Thomas Merton
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.
Lawrence R. Klein
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I liked money more than going to school.


Norton Simon
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I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
Marilyn Monroe
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I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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I liked science very much. A science teacher in high school inspired me, and because of him, I began studying science at the university. But when I got there... well, the subject still attracted me a lot, but I had to do all these exams, and it was just like working in an office. I couldn't stand that.
Theo Jansen
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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.


Steven Wright
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In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.
Zoey Deutch
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Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.


Wendy Davis