I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.
I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.
I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.
The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.
