Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser’s vision of constructing Aswan’s High Dam as a ‘national project’ for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.

‘Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who’s 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in – when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.

Superiority complex does not mean “pride” although it appears to be so in the eyes of those who want to see it so. When you feel a higher esteem over the obstacles you desire to...

It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone

My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn’t diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger’s syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that...

Well, just coming off the stage and there’s like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you’re doing so much and it’s hard to just put your head on the...

The first piece of ‘long’ fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King’s ‘Christine.’ I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a...

I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their...

I did play Jesus in ‘Godspell,’ in high school, because I guess I’m a nerd.

When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would...

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside – and can die inside – so they are held to very high standards.

Patients are becoming aware that they’re being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India’s healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year...

Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that’s why I...

Nowadays in pop, there’s not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high – it’s not as common as it once was.

I think I’m one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself – and other people seemed to think of me – as funny from a very young age....

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

Throw your hands and pull up those in the valley do the hill. However, press your feet on the ground so hard that you don’t fall into the same valley together. Some people’s helping hands...

Albert Camus’s ‘La Peste’ – ‘The Plague’ – had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I...

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

Humour and high seriousness… Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a...

I came out when I was 17 – coming out in middle or high school is one of the most difficult things that anyone could experience. I wouldn’t wish it on my enemies.

High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn’t...

My music has a high irritation factor. I’ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity...

I never had worked in high fashion before, had never experienced it when I was a model before. I appreciate it, being able to work with such talented people; it feels like a gift now....

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn’t have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five...

My senior year of high school, I was voted ‘Wittiest.’ So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

See the golden beach sands and blue skyin a cool breezemy mind flys high

I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

I don’t think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. Generally speaking, we don’t have vivid memories of that age and what influenced us, yet clearly they are...

When I got out of high school, I thought, ‘I’ll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.’ More than 40...

You’d be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin –...

When you’re on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are...

I wish I was more stupid because I’m either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I’m a bit morbid. There’s never anything in between.

High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you’re paid nothing; you’re playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping...

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.