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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Fran Lebowitz

Book, High, Cause

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.
Temple Grandin

Good, Emotional, Game

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
Donald Trump

Great, Finance, Student

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats

Women, Beautiful, Woman

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones

Children, Made, Friends

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
Colin Powell

College, Public, Born

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
Ellen DeGeneres

Faith, Sunday, Important

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
Danica McKellar

Good, Hard, Friends

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
Alice Walker

Best, Fear, Done

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
Marilyn Manson

Change, Art, Made

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
Jim Carrey

Friends, Reason, Along

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
Dolly Parton

Poor, Kids, Depressing

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.
Michelle Obama

Parents, Give, Choice

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
Michelle Obama

Life, Nothing, May

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
Mark Zuckerberg

Friends, Advice, Learn

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Dick Gregory

Home, Hate, Learned

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
Christopher Hitchens

May, Philosophy, Around

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
Temple Grandin

Hurt, Through, Problems

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
Stephen King

High, Face, Though

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.
Kin Hubbard

Famous, Long, Someone

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
Richard Dawkins

Age, Confirmed, Prep

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
Richard Dawkins

Nothing, Career, Special

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
Christina Aguilera

Before, Wanted, High

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson

Old, Left, Interested

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Richard M. Nixon

Love, Fear, True

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr

God, Sports, Hockey

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
Christina Aguilera

Dreams, Hard, Divorce

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.
Haile Gebrselassie

Down, Rainy, Find

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
E. O. Wilson

Time, Today, Loyalty

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
Henry Rollins

Good, Person, Young

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