Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning."
Grades quotes
Grades
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Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"There should be a course in the first grade on love."
James Brown
Singer, Musician
"I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use"
Ezra Miller
Actor
"There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school."
LeBron James
Professional Basketball Player
"In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160."
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"There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it."
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"I was home schooled starting in seventh grade."
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"I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y."
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"I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape."
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"Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily."
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"The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8."
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"I did not think I would make the grade."
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"There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients."
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"I did plays in grade school."
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"First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right."
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"There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being."
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"The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do."
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"The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out!"
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