Grades Quotes

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Three years after that I was diagnosed as dyslexic, and we struck a deal: I was allowed to start acting on condition that I would read constantly and get good grades at school.

- Keira Knightley

I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn`t good enough. I got into city college because I didn`t have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that`s literally how I got involved in acting.

- Dustin Hoffman

"I was a 36C or D, and at 5` 1", I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world."

- Janeane Garofalo

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

- Havelock Ellis

I got good grades in school, but I was in a little school and a small town out of Pittsburgh, not academically demanding or ambitious, I don`t know how much that says but I was not that science thrilled I was more in to playing sports, jazz, painting and acting, stuff like that, but recently because of playing these parts I`ve gotten more interested in science, my dad was a doctor, and I`m reading this Carl Sagan book that makes science, see the way he talks about it is very aliquot, makes it seems kind of human kind of romantic and wondrous, spirituals, sexy vermeil, its very attractive book that he just wrote.

- Jeff Goldblum

When I signed for As the World Turns" (1956) (a three-year stint beginning when she was 15), I had to promise my mom that it wouldn`t hurt my grades and my dad that I would go to college. Acting kept me out of trouble. I had to go to CBS at 7 a.m., so I didn`t have any time to fool around".

- Jordana Brewster

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

- Stanley Kubrick

Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.

- Dennis Wilson

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn`t really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

- Julie Taymor

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

- Barack Obama

I had full rides to Nebraska, West Virginia, Marshall, Youngstown State and Pitt, ... But I struggled with my grades and couldn`t play Division I.

- Billy Blanks

Today`s cars have computers that are all set up and programmed for the different grades of gas. All the sensors are reading different things to make the car run better.

- Jim Baker

It takes each driver two-to-three years to learn how to separate the different grades, It is never going to be a cheap product.

- Laura Jones

I have a tough grading system, but I had a couple of the lowest grades ever.

- Kevin Wilson

From the seventh through the twelfth grades, I probably designed and did a lot of the building for twenty or thirty productions.

- Richard Foreman

at Janarth Sakhar Shalas, state curriculum is followed in a full time school pattern to prevent children from dropping out and joining the labour force at 7-8 years of age. In some places, sugar factory owners have begun getting involved in our work and have come forward to provide permanent infrastructural facilities for our schools. Workers in turn also ask contractors for locations with school presence. The challenges are to secure state funding for the program and expansion of the infrastructure and curriculum to higher grades.

- John Woods

The Homework Help software is designed for students in grades 4 through 12 with some tutoring in college introduction courses available.

- Ashley Brown

We began an aggressive reading strategy through Reading First two years ago in nearly 100 elementary schools with low reading achievement across the state. These efforts, which involve students in the early grades, will show up on NAEP measures in future years, and will give us a roadmap for expanding this approach to providing professional development, building leadership and strengthening reading instruction in more schools in our state.

- Howard Lee

The preschool, kindergarten, and first grades are in a separate building, basically an aluminum shed building, and it survived the hurricane with no damage,

- Sarah Miller

I like it a lot cause it has got me to get my grades up.

- John Roach

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

- Alan Klein

If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?

- Alexander Hamilton

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

- Alexander Silbiger

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It`s integral to the implementation of everything.

- Alyn McCauley

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A`s.

- Andreas Schaefer

Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years.

- Andreas Schaefer

If the Liberals` law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

- Andrei Krivtsov

The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.

- Angel Mehta

This is mainly going to alleviate overcrowding at Double Churches. We`re going to let fifth-graders who get assigned from those two schools to North Columbus remain at their schools, if their parents want them to continue there and they apply for a hardship. Students in the other grades can apply for a hardship, but we will look at space available.

- Angie Lassman

I think you can be excused for having some lapses, ... You need to put that in the context of the overall disaster that you`re dealing with here, and FEMA certainly gets passing grades.

- Anne Messitte

She`s dedicated. She cross-trains all summer long. Her grades are excellent. I think that comes from having to deal with deaf parents.

- Anne Price

(The choice between social life and the uphill struggle for grades can be a hard one.) Balancing school and social life was the hardest for me in my second year, ... You don`t have the ready access to people that you had in the dorm; if you want the homework for last night, you now have to call someone rather than knock on their door.

- Arnika Brown

Colleges love to see that their student applicants have been on these academic programs. A student may be at the top of the class but if your good grades are all you have then colleges might think you`re too narrow, ... Being in programs like the National Forensic League or Close Up, show that as a student you have a wide range of interests and some experience in different subjects -- it makes you a more attractive applicant.

- Arthur Ceria

He has all the tools scouts love. You can give him great grades on a report card and look great because everyone can see the talent. He has an awful lot of talent, a lot of potential, but he has never gotten it done consistently. Maybe this time it will be different because the Padres have a lot at stake when they make a final decision on him.

- Audria Moore

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it

- Mark Twain

Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they`re an explicit acknowledgment that what you`re doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don`t want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.

- Derrick Jensen