- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
School Quotes
On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.
These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are maybe three inventions I have that I rank as my top inventions that I'm most proud of. The robot I built in high school, the memory-protected circuitry for the Galileo and the Super Soaker.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friends who were so supportive absolutely made my high school - that could have been traumatic - they definitely made it bearable.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
My original plan was to graduate high school and major in computer engineering at college. That went out the window, and I said, 'I have to do something with speaking.'
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My formative years were in Houston. I was in middle school, and everyone was dropping the last half of their names and adding an 'o' to the end. My little crew that I had, we were an all-female rap group, and everyone had an 'o' at the end of their name. I was Lisso. Then this dude started getting lazy with it, saying Lizzo.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't peak in high school.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't play a high school student forever, so at some point, I'm going to have to tear down that wall and tear off that wig and be me.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020