Eighth Grade Quotes - Page 2

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.
Shantel Vansanten / Model
Differences
Eighth Grade
Ideas
Inspire
Long
No Idea
Paper
Life Long My Life
Eighth
Grade
Make A Difference
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For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was born, and I met my future husband in the eighth grade - there are always family stories and legends passed down.
Susan Straight / Writer
Eighth Grade
Legends
Life Future Family
Blocks
Eighth
Life Family Future
Grade
Passed
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I've known my wife since we were 13 years old in eighth grade, and we kinda dated each other's best friends. The four of us always hung out, but I really wanted her. We dated around 17, but I was no way mature enough for her.
Dierks Bentley / Singer
Eighth Grade
Hung
Mature
Dated
Eighth
Grade
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I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.
Chance The Rapper /
Clown
Eighth Grade
Funny Time Long
Funny Time Me
Class Clown
Rapping
Eighth
Grade
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One of my first interviews was Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, and Johnny Depp for 'Pirates of the Caribbean.' I was in eighth grade at the time, little teenybopper. I was so, so nervous. I just remember Johnny had an aura around him.
Karen Fukuhara /
Caribbean
Eighth Grade
Interviews
Nervous
Orlando
Aura
Bloom
Depp
Eighth
Grade
Johnny
Johnny Depp
Pirates
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I didn't really start going to see a lot of musicals and live theater probably until I was in seventh or eighth grade, maybe my first year of high school, and by that time I'd probably seen 'Grease' twice a year every year of my life.
Thomas Kail /
Eighth Grade
Live Theater
Life Time My Life
Life Time Start
Twice
Grade
Musicals
Seventh
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It's been a privilege to get to watch one of sports greatest athletes prepare and get to play with him; honestly... it's a dream. I remember being in eighth grade saying, 'I'm Tom Brady,' on the asphalt at recess, you know, playing football.
Julian Edelman / American Football Wide Receiver
Brady
Eighth Grade
Privilege
Recess
Athletes
Eighth
Prepare
Tom
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Michigan's been recruiting me since the eighth grade, so they have a special place in my heart, I'd say, because I've visited there seven times, and my mom lives in Michigan, still, and she'd probably like me to stay closer to home and play.
Devin Booker /
Eighth Grade
Michigan
Closer
Grade
Recruiting
Special Place
Visited
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My parents had the plan for my life from the moment my mother tested positive with me. Looking back now, I'd say the hard turn for me was when I left school after the eighth grade to play tennis full time and study some with a travelling tutor.
Douglas Brunt /
Eighth Grade
Looking Back
Tennis
Tested
Tutor
Positive Life Time
Grade
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I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.
Jill Scott / Singer-Songwriter
Eighth Grade
Hip Hop
Jazz
Musical
Pulse
Rhythm
Writing
Background
Authors
Eighth
Grade
Hear Music
Poe
Shakespeare
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As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.
David Lambert /
Atlanta
Eighth Grade
Georgia
Time Me Joy
Agent
Named
Time Joy Me
Eighth
Ended
Grade
Picking
Seventh
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Growing up in New Orleans, when you're in seventh and eighth grade, and you're into music, and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog, and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock.
Steve Zissis / Actor
Classic
Classic Rock
Dorky
Eighth Grade
New Orleans
Phases
Music New Know
Catalog
Dude
Grade
Orleans
Rush
Seventh
Zeppelin
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My mom was a beautician in her early days, and then my parents decided that one of them needed to go to school in order to build the future. So my mom started going to college when I was in eighth grade, and she graduated when I was a freshman in college.
Julie Sweet /
Decided
Eighth Grade
Freshman
Needed
Early Days
Eighth
Grade
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My girlfriend in eighth grade had been asking her friends when I was going to kiss her. At a dance, my buddy said, 'You better do it now!' I went in for it. I felt like the coolest person on the face of the earth. A week or two later, she broke up with me.
Michael Rady / Actor
Dance
Broke
Buddy
Eighth Grade
Girlfriend
Face Me Better
Coolest
Eighth
Grade
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I know other people who have started their kids in tackle football for, like, four- and five-year-olds. So I think it's up to each individual's parents, but for me personally, no I wouldn't. But would I be OK with him playing in seventh or eighth grade? Yes.
Marc Veasey / United States Representative
Eighth Grade
Football Me People
Football Me Parents
Grade
Seventh
Tackle
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
Taylor Swift / Singer-Songwriter
Different
Eighth Grade
Pages
Song
Myspace
All My Friends
Eighth
Grade
Profiles
Page
Relatives
Sudden
Talked
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In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let's face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn't want to translate myself in that direction.
Robert Davi / Actor
Cinema
Eighth Grade
Impulse
Opera
Singers
Direction
Eighth
Followed
Grade
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I have been an Avengers fan since the middle 1960s. I grew up with them, and I've imagined a hundred different versions of an Avengers movie. I think I even have a script I wrote back in eighth grade, 'Avengers vs. the Mole Man.' Truly dreadful, but a work of love.
Jonathan Maberry / Author
Avengers
Eighth Grade
Versions
Love Work Man
Dreadful
Grade
Mole
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My seventh-grade year, I played football. I was, like, 15 pounds overweight, so I had to lose a ton of weight. They put me at left tackle; they put me on the defensive line. I absolutely hated football. I didn't want to play again. Eighth grade year, I didn't play.
Zach Ertz /
Eighth Grade
Overweight
Tackle
Ton
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I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
Jason Wiles / Actor
Book
Character
Cities
Clown
Eighth Grade
Murphy
Public Speaking
Routine
Good Always Character
Assume
Report
Good Character Always
Contest
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Eighth
Won
Grade
Speaking
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It's a little crazy. Last year, I was in seventh grade, and we were the babies at the school - 'cause my middle school's eighth grade and seventh grade - and now I'm eighth grade, and all these new students have come in, and they're all like, 'Oh my gosh! Darci Lynne!'
Darci Lynne Farmer /
Eighth Grade
Last Year
Babies
Eighth
Gosh
Grade
Seventh
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I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.
Alessia Cara /
Eighth Grade
Fine
Fourth
Weird
Teachers
Eighth
Grade
Phase
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I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Eighth Grade
Hey
Six
Wrong
Eighth
Everybody Else
Grade
Guess
Other Kids
Seventh
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I became a Christian within a fundamentalist church. I saw 'A Thief in the Night' on a 16 mm. print when I was in the eighth grade, and I got the whole scare speech from our pastors. 'Do you want to be left here, left behind, for the Tribulation? If not, then come forward.'
Scott Derrickson / Director
Eighth Grade
Fundamentalist
Print
Scare
Tribulation
Grade
Pastors
Thief
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I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
Channing Tatum / Actor
Drug
Dyslexia
Eighth Grade
Focus
School
Starting
Tested
Disabilities
Fast
Eighth
Grade
Pumped
Soon
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I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head.
David Morse / Actor
Teacher
Borrowed
Class
Eighth Grade
English Teacher
Loud
Mediocre
One Day
Terrified
Time Me Day
Talk
Time Teacher Me
Announced
Baker
English
Call
Read
Student
Eighth
Grade
Head
Hid
Mrs
She
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.
Dave Brubeck / Jazz Pianist
Dad
Cattle
Cows
Eighth Grade
Grammar School
School
Track
Years
Dad Me School
Eighth
Grade
Herd
Manager
Owned
Ranch
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In, like, seventh or eighth grade every day after school, my friend Andrew and I would watch 'Wayne's World.' And I think it's a great example of a sketch effectively turned into a movie and a story that really works with a good journey. Not easily accomplished, but such a good journey.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Accomplished
Andrew
Eighth Grade
Wayne
Good Great Journey
Effectively
Eighth
Grade
My Friend
Seventh
Sketch
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I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Apartment
Astronomy
Atlas
Cheesy
Eighth Grade
Normal
Planets
Sci Fi
By The Time
Eighth
Grade
Telescope
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Something a lot of people don't know about me is I sucked my thumb until I was in like eighth grade. It's cause, when I was a baby, I sucked my thumb and I guess my mom and dad never weaned me off of that, because they thought it was cute. And then it's like an addiction. That's your security blanket.
Gabby Barrett /
Cute
Dad
Addiction
Blanket
Eighth Grade
Mom And Dad
Security
Mom Your Me
Mom Dad Your
Cause
Eighth
Dad Mom Me
Grade
Guess
Off
Sucked
Thumb
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I saw 'The Shining' in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn't really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.
Mike Flanagan /
Defined
Eighth Grade
Filmmaking
Meant To Be
Digest
Petrified
Properly
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I grew up producing hip-hop music, actually. I was producing for my friends, who were all rappers in upstate New York, where I'm from. But in the eighth grade, we had this songwriting contest in our school, and I got really excited about it and actually won. After that, I just kept making music forever.
Gus Dapperton /
Eighth Grade
Songwriting
Upstate New York
Contest
Rappers
Grade
Producing
Upstate
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I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Eighth Grade
Finished
Showing Up
Alternative
Twice
Eighth
Grade
Ninth
Mainly
Seventh
Showing
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In eighth grade, when I was just the school weirdo, my drama teacher put me in a play, and we came up with a few comedy bits. And that very first reaction, for an audience of supportive middle schoolers, I put my head out and pretended I got scared by the audience, and ducked back in. They all went: 'Yeah! That's great!'
Thomas Middleditch / Actor
Bits
Eighth Grade
Supportive
Weirdo
Teacher Great Me
Great Teacher Me
Grade
Pretended
Reaction
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My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.
Mike Rowe / Actor
Work
Dad
Broken
Carpenter
Community
Eighth Grade
Guy
Magician
Mechanic
Mother
Our Community
Plumber
Problem
Time Work Mother
Had
Time Work Dad
Anybody
He
Fix
By The Time
Could
Dropped
Eighth
Work Time Dad
Grade
Mason
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I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking, 'This is pretty awesome - is this really a job you can have?' This led me toward a career as an academic, although it took me until college to realise that economics was the right field.
Emily Oster / Economist
Academic
Eighth Grade
Research
Thinking Always Me
Although
Thinking Me Remember
Awesome
Eighth
Project
Grade
Led
Realise
Toward
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I got obsessed with impersonations: impersonating people that I knew - people, not famous people but people like my family. At first, it was just fun; it's always been just fun. But I sort of got to a point in maybe seventh or eighth grade where I started getting heavily involved in drama programs via programs in my high school.
Stephan James /
Famous
Drama
Eighth Grade
High School
Involved
Family Always People
Eighth
Famous People
Grade
Programs
Seventh
Via
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In eighth grade, I pretty much didn't want to pass. I was 6'8'.' I was always bigger and stronger. I was getting triple-teamed, and the results weren't good. I wasn't helping my team. I was forcing shots. Then I started passing it out to my team, and they started hitting shots and slashing, and that's when things opened up for me.
Jahlil Okafor /
Eighth Grade
Hitting
Passing
Good Always Me
Good Me Always
Forcing
Grade
Opened
Slashing
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Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.
Lindsey Shaw / Actress
California
Charity
Eighth Grade
Program
Scholarship
School
Soup
Soup Kitchens
Everywhere
Drives
Eighth
Project
Grade
Junior
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I was so in love with this boy in eighth grade. I really thought he was the one for me, and then he broke up with me because he said that I liked him more than he liked me, and I was living in N.Y. at the time, and I was on the subway just, like, truly heartbroken because when you're that age, you don't think you are ever going to recover.
Lana Condor /
Broke
Eighth Grade
Heartbroken
Subway
Love Time Age
Liked
Eighth
Grade
Recover
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California is the highest-tax state in the nation and has been for a long time. It has the highest-paid teachers in the nation, by far - $400 a month more than New Jersey - and yet California is the third lowest state on test scores for fourth and eighth grade English and math in the nation, and has been at the low level for a long, long time.
Arthur Laffer / Economist
California
Eighth Grade
Fourth
Jersey
Long Time
Math
New Jersey
Test Scores
Teachers
Time Long New
Month
English
Nation
Eighth
Grade
Low
Scores
Test
Third
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