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.

I guess I was popular in high school.

I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.

The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high efficiency irrigation.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I’ll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

There’s always a high school jerk, isn’t there? But I didn’t date much in high school, because I went to an all-girls’ private school for ten years.

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn’t below .450, and that’s pretty good hitting where I come from.

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about...

To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is todiscuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is to think of Modesty,Simplicity and Lucidity. To remember him is to remember Nationalism atits...

Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was...

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine (‘vet’) its nominees for high public office.

Heading to Paris when I was 17 and modelling exposed me to high fashion, which influenced me to dress on-trend – not extravagantly, but always in fashion.

I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.

My high school coach was Ray O’Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I...

Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.

I’ve always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywood’s eyes, the perfect women has to be...

Make good choices. The environment in which you dwell can have a high influence on what you will achieve. Friends you associate yourself with have the potential to reduce or upgrade your brand. What you...

They may be a little more high brow than we 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.

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the...

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today’s kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

I’d rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

I always wanted to be a filmmaker, but I started acting when I was 9 years old. I looked a certain part that I wasn’t, really. I played, you know, a high school jock with...

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you’re kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece....

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I...

I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.

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.